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MojoJul 18, 2012Bright, snappy and instantly infectious hooks. [Jun 2012, p.84]
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Jun 5, 2012Not a reinvention so much as an enjoyable detour, Radlands is a set of aural postcards from the Lone Star State that demonstrates just how much good a working vacation can do.
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May 10, 2012This has turned out to be the album of their career.
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May 3, 2012Miles away from the poppy happy clappy smiley lovey dovey vibes of Twenty One or epic choruses of Serotonin, Radlands displays a new direction and confidence.
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Apr 30, 2012A mature, reflective, intelligent, Americana-inflected [album].
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Apr 30, 2012The results are almost always convincing.
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Apr 30, 2012Simply a superb collection of beautifully captured moments and suggests that Mystery Jets are going to be making great music for a very long time.
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Apr 27, 2012Their boldest and most fantastically frisky record to date.
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Apr 27, 2012There's more emphasis on guitars, and they appear to have ingested a whole load of pharmaceuticals, but at heart they're a great pop band, and their ability to write a heart-rending tune certainly hasn't been hampered.
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Apr 27, 2012[There are no] outstandingly bad offerings, just several more forgettable ones than can be briskly ignored.
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Jun 7, 2012The problem with Radlands is that, armed with the potential to go wild with a new bag of tricks, Mystery Jets often become as conservatively minded as parts of the state whose outline graces the album's cover.
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Jun 8, 2012Sadly, despite flashes of brilliance, fourth record Radlands more often finds Mystery Jets operating on autopilot.
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UncutMay 2, 2012Pushing too hard, then or maybe not hard enough. [Jun 2012, p.79]
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Apr 27, 2012While no longer the carefree creatures of their early records, Mystery Jets sound as bracingly hit-and-miss as they've ever done on Radlands, and for that much alone we can be thankful.
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Jun 4, 2012For everyone else, the predictable melodic twists and some truly awful lyrics will likely prove too much to endure.
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Apr 27, 2012The veneer of sepia-tinged retro-rock smothers the album, and it ends up lacking the bounce or charm of previous efforts.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 9
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Mixed: 2 out of 9
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