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May 11, 2017[The first track, "Celebrate" is] a stunning start--and thankfully, the songs that follow are just as strong.
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Apr 26, 2017The fifth album by the Swedish avant-pop group since its 2007 debut merges synthetic R&B, modern textures and of-the-moment dance music. The result finds the quartet at its most magnetic and adventurous.
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Apr 25, 2017The band will probably never make a singularly categorizable record, but their unique balance of accessibility and creativity is a definite strength--and it shines here.
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MojoApr 25, 2017Clever and cool, Season High is a career high. [Jun 2017, p.90]
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Apr 14, 2017On Season High, she's bringing a more versatile vocal treatment than ever. Always with the inimitable low range quaver, Nagano touches different ranges without a hitch. With an evolved new collection of tracks that are both hot and smart, Little Dragon has set themselves further apart.
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Apr 12, 2017For all Season High’s exuberance, the record never pitches too hard. Little Dragon sense when to turn it down just as well as they know when to ramp it up, and tracks like Butterflies and Strobe Lights deal in emerald lights and moody ultraviolet.
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Apr 12, 2017This is an album that delivers both mood and melody, thanks in no small part to Nagano.
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Apr 27, 2017On this accomplished fourth album, Little Dragon’s enthusiasm is palpable and their world well worth exploring.
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Apr 14, 2017Like every Little Dragon album, Season High contains several new entries into the band’s essential catalog, but as a whole, it fails to fulfill its potential.
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Apr 21, 2017Season High is a pleasant ride--a breezy escapade through dreamlands and ultraviolet meadows. It’s a sometimes sickly-sweet concoction that’ll leave you once or twice with the feeling of overindulgence.
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UncutApr 20, 2017What once seemed an aesthetic springboard for the band to make truly great music now seems rather like retreading old ground. [Jun 2017, p.33]
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Apr 17, 2017The beats toughen up with the second half bangers Strobe Light and Push, on an album that lyrically does what it says on the tin.
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Apr 13, 2017For all of its escapist ambition, Season High’s genre-hopping feels more like a showcase for Little Dragon’s pop competence than the sound of a group swept up in instinctive creativity.
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Q MagazineApr 12, 2017Tracks such as Celebrate and Push lack the euphoric uplift necessary for dancefloor dominance, while the relationship angst hinted at in strobe Light comes masked behind a dreamy production gauze. When they hit the sweet spot, however, the results are sublime. [Jun 2017, p.110]
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Apr 12, 2017Their minimalist aesthetic can sometimes work against them, as on the spartan, diffident “The Pop Life”, but it’s tempered by a winning romanticism on “Butterflies”, where the fluttering keyboards evoke a fantasy of a dead soul becoming a butterfly, one of “a thousand souls swarming”.
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Apr 14, 2017It's so clinical that it works better as an audition reel for their next round of features than it does its own statement.
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May 9, 2017The album is deficient in emotional depth and congeals into a mass of adequate mood music. It doesn't offer much more once the themes--including romantic fulfillment, solace, and longing, with a little materialistic frivolity, eyelash batting, and cutting loose--come into sharper focus.
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Apr 18, 2017While Season High has its showstopping moments, as a whole it tries to cram in too many ideas into a variety of disjointed themes.
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Apr 12, 2017There are flashes of a more invigorating band underneath, but Season High ultimately ends up the kind of record for festival attendees to pleasantly dance along to while sipping their drinks waiting for the headliner.
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Positive: 11 out of 14
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Mixed: 3 out of 14
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