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Sep 27, 2016It’s an as surprising and unpredictable, yet unquestionably enjoyable 40 minutes of music.
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Sep 23, 2016It’s the band’s most accomplished work to date.
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Dec 15, 2016Return to Love exhibits a surfeit of hooks, stuffed to the gills with sublime melodic instincts.
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MojoSep 27, 2016Nuanced lyrics and striking melodies. [Nov 2016, p.96]
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Sep 22, 2016Even at the midpoint meltdown of Pain’s insistent fuzz-mangling, it's all sumptuously glazed with a thick veneer of moreish melody and buzzing hooks.
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Mar 15, 2017Lvl Up never made guitars feel more relevant than they do on their third album and Sub Pop debut Return to Love.
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Sep 28, 2016They’re just the latest to move these pieces around--to use distortion pedals and droning vocals to unpack the mysteries of the universe. But there’s a confidence that with time they could be the ones to finally solve the puzzle.
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Sep 23, 2016Return To Love is a real head-spinning breakthrough--full of scruffily dazed romanticism, weirdly pastoral even though there's plenty of urban grime in their fuzz pedals.
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Sep 22, 2016For now, Return to Love is a fun and occasionally moving throwback, filled with nicely catchy songs, familiar sounds, and the overwhelming sense that the band's love of the '90s is being transmitted directly to the listener minus any irony and/or distance.
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Sep 22, 2016A clear adoration for 90s bands doesn’t stop Return to Love from being an extremely strong album from 2016, and an undoubted step up.
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Sep 22, 2016Return to Love is a sticky, sweat-drenched spiritual that commands attention with each wrenching power chord. Far from any aesthetic bait-and-switch, the album marks a slow maturation, a deep breath of chordal refinement that for once feels like an honest distillation of form.