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Oct 15, 2012While it's odd that The Origin of Love doesn't work as well in practice as it might have in theory, it still has enough bright moments to please most fans.
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Nov 19, 2012With The Origin of Love it sounds like he's sacrificed that youthful glee in his songwriting for club anthems that aren't really all that mature.
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Q MagazineOct 18, 2012The result is persuasive, likable grown-up pop without that off-putting jazz-hands factor. [Nov 2012, p.99]
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Oct 16, 2012It is an accomplished pop album but one that struggles to make any sort of lasting impression.
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Oct 15, 2012The fact is, The Origin of Love is simply a good record by one of the UK's more undervalued pop songwriters.
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Oct 15, 2012Other than the perky pabulum of prostitution singalong Lola and a big fat feelgood chorus on Step with Me, the hooks and hits are thin on the ground.
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Oct 15, 2012If Mika had refined this into a 10-track collection, trimming the cuts that don't quite click, we'd have an excellent album on our hands. As it is, The Origin of Love is stretched slightly too long.
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Oct 15, 2012The Origin of Love is an autotuned, multitracked meringue whose ingredients include 10cc and Buggles, and whose only weakness is the absence of a killer single.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 23
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Mixed: 4 out of 23
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Negative: 3 out of 23
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