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78

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: The third full-length release for the New York alternative rock band was produced by Mike Ditrio.
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Hidden Driver
Hidden driver Omnipotent in the way that it arrests Every sense and every lesson I want to make a call, I guess But I can't completely stress... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Sep 27, 2016
    85
    It’s an as surprising and unpredictable, yet unquestionably enjoyable 40 minutes of music.
  2. Sep 23, 2016
    83
    It’s the band’s most accomplished work to date.
  3. Dec 15, 2016
    80
    Return to Love exhibits a surfeit of hooks, stuffed to the gills with sublime melodic instincts.
  4. Mar 15, 2017
    78
    Lvl Up never made guitars feel more relevant than they do on their third album and Sub Pop debut Return to Love.
  5. Sep 28, 2016
    73
    They’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.
  6. Sep 23, 2016
    70
    Return 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.
  7. Sep 22, 2016
    60
    Return 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.

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  1. Sep 23, 2016
    8
    Mad excellent! Just a well realized lo-fi style, very distorted, self deprecating lyrics. It kind of just flies by since it's so uniform andMad excellent! Just a well realized lo-fi style, very distorted, self deprecating lyrics. It kind of just flies by since it's so uniform and carefully executed Expand