Serotonin - Mystery Jets
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77 out of 100

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7.7 out of 10

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  • Record Label: Rough Trade
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Clash Music
    90
    The Eel Pie Islanders' sees the band mature as songwriters, which should attract the mainstream attention that's so overdue them.
  2. Drowned In Sound
    80
    Serotonin makes its intentions pretty clear – it is a pop record, it has themes, it knows where it wants to go, it knows what it wants to do. It does those things – it is melodic.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    80
    While it's a wiser and more weathered quintet that greets us in 2010, the Londoners return not bruised or broken but infinitely more polished and positively bursting with ideas, passion and optimism.
  4. PopMatters
    60
    The pure prettiness of the melodies tends to blur the songs together into one super-catchy super-song; gone is the texture, the songs are polished to transparency. The album is good but lacking something central to make it stick out in any way: everything is rounded off.

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  1. KateM
    10
    With such great songs as Flash A Hungry Smile and Show Me The Light, Serotonin is an absolute must have- however, tracks such as Dreaming and Melt, whilst good, feel a little more forced than the effortless fun provided by Twenty One (the album). It's still a fantastic album, but the increase in lackluster is, as times, unsettling.… Expand
  2. MatthewColombia
    9
    Mystery Jets are back with another masterpiece. They get better and better with every new album they release, you can tell the progression within their 3 first albums. It's another album with almost every song as a possible single, catchy songs that will make you sing-a-long like your favorite all-time album, great lyrics, and awesome vocals.… Expand

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