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Apr 23, 2014Nothing here is as relentlessly hooky as 2012's "Everybody Talks," but its bubbly propulsion informs the cheeky "I Love You (But I Hate Your Friends)" and swooning "Teenager in Love." That mix of energy and insight makes Psychology a 40-minute master class in the kind of pop that moves both the body and the brain.
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Apr 21, 2014Even if Neon Trees sometimes try a little too hard to be serious on Pop Psychology, it's some of their most heartfelt music and some of their finest.
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Alternative PressApr 21, 2014A slick, synthed-up, unabashed party. [May 2014, p.92]
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Apr 22, 2014Pop Psychology opens with the biggest, shiniest songs he's come up with, each taking on a slippery aspect of post-modern romance.
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Apr 21, 2014If [a band] goes back to the well once too often, it can be derided for stagnating. If it takes a left turn, fans may bemoan the change of pace. Neon Trees, the Utah band behind the unavoidable “Animal” and “Everybody Talks,” seem to have split the difference on their third effort.
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Q MagazineJul 11, 2014While Glenn gamely belts out every song like it's a Broadway audition, his band's appeal remains some distance short of universal. [Aug 2014, p.111]
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MagnetApr 21, 2014It's the sort of record today's 15-year-olds are going to feel embarrassed about owning five or six years from now. [No. 108, p.56]
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