Pleasure - Pure X
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  • Summary: Formerly known as Pure Ecstasy, Pure X's debut full-length album was recorded live.
  • Record Label: Acephale
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. All Music Guide
    Dec 19, 2011
    80
    Heavy on atmosphere and hooks alike, Pleasure comes one bounding step closer in the eternal quest to marry refined song craft and ungovernable noise.
  2. Delusions of Adequacy
    Mar 28, 2012
    80
    The freshness of these subversions reveal spaces you didn't know were there, and achieve a rare expansion of the vocabulary of music.
  3. musicOMH.com
    Sep 7, 2011
    80
    It's one of the finer conversions of 2011, managing the delicate task of crafting a record that sounds both incomprehensibly universal, deeply personal, and, yes, endlessly listenable.
  4. Uncut
    Sep 14, 2011
    60
    They are less successful when they step beyond these templates--the trippy "Surface" doesn't quite come off-- but this is a strong set. [Oct 2011, p.95]
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