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The uptempo songs are full of life and happiness, the few slow songs have a subdued grace that is trademark Club 8, and when taken together, they add up to the band’s best record to date.
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Though The People's Record contains some of the best music of Club 8's career, it doesn't hold up well as a complete album. There are no outright duds, but the sequence is front-loaded to such a degree that there is an obvious drop-off in quality by the middle of the set.
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What’s striking about The People’s Record isn’t just how different it sounds. It’s how familiar it sounds while also sounding different.
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The result is a warmly inviting album that's as sweet as it is cleverly composed.
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Sometimes, the band forms something interesting and new from these starting points.
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UncutProducer Jari Haapalainen successfully blends it all together, but Karolina Komstedt's vacant vocals remian glacially unmoved. [Jul 2010, p.104]