The Past Presents The Future - Her Space Holiday
Metascore
60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Uncut
    80
    Witty, tragi-comic lyrics layered over busy beats, strings and electronic flourishes which never sacrifice intimacy. [Nov 2005, p.114]
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  2. Urb
    80
    Marks a new high for Bianchi as a studio guru. [Oct 2005, p.78]
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  3. Lost At Sea
    75
    The Past Presents the Future strongly matches the high bar he has set with his past few albums.
  4. PopMatters
    70
    Bianchi might have created his most consistent album under the Her Space Holiday moniker, solidifying his status and one of the most important figures on the indie electro-pop scene.
  5. Q Magazine
    60
    Should go down well with listeners who like their singers to take break-ups badly. [Nov 2005, p.125]
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  6. Drowned In Sound
    60
    It's far from a poor record - the sole problem is that a number of songs do blur together, forming more of an aural whitewash than the technicolour trip some had predicted.
  7. All Music Guide
    50
    Past Presents the Future falters between a coalesced pop sound and its pristine fragments.
  8. Prefix Magazine
    50
    Bianchi doesn’t seem to be traveling down any new paths.
  9. Pitchfork
    47
    Bianchi's not much for such subtleties, emotional or rhetorical, which may suggest he'll have as much lovelorn electro-symphonic melodrama to recount on future albums as on those past and present.
  10. Under The Radar
    40
    This feels like a record that should move the listener, yet its complete lack of conviction makes this almost impossible. [#11, p.115]
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  11. Mojo
    40
    The songs are so wordy, the album so one-paced that it soon begins to sag. [Dec 2005, p.105]
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  12. Alternative Press
    40
    Bianchi's hackneyed lyrics... often overshadow the music's subtle pleasures. [Oct 2005, p.170]
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User Score
8.2 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. AmandaI.
    10
    It just doesn't get any better. genius. Pure genius.
  2. joes
    1
    meh
  3. Mef
    10
    Same great Her Space Holiday sounds we've come to know and love, but this time he takes it to a new level.
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