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The album's strength really, is evoking so strongly the excessive, lonely culture that the music comes from.
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A serviceable debut, it has some interesting ideas, though it won’t change the game.
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These Thieves do often come off as just another trendy outfit hawking tawdry 20-year time warps, albeit with more streamlined sonics than many.
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Play Music is a good idea poorly executed.
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Q MagazineThis may be some kind of dance music but Play Music is sadly no fun. [Jul 2009, p.133]
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Thieves Like Us look and sound like three yuppies trying out the music lark after being laid off by an investment banking firm.