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Nov 1, 2013It’s uplifting, motivating and unashamedly simple (which, frankly, is it’s major charm).
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Nov 1, 2013It's more than good, but it could have been great.
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Oct 28, 2013Good moments include the drama-packed ‘Just Another Night’ and the fun pop of ‘On A Roll’, but neither resembles the formulaic trash cluttering the rest of the record.
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Q MagazineOct 11, 2013This Is... Icona Pop does contain some enjoyable moments, but it's a hollow victory. [Nov 2013, p.117]
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Oct 11, 2013It’s unashamedly fantastic, uplifting and most of all it’s a real joy to listen to.
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Oct 10, 2013It has ten passable tracks and one certified super-smash that will either get listeners gleefully singing-along or reaching for the skip button. You decide.
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Oct 8, 2013Two songs from the EP made the cut for the album (“Ready For the Weekend” and, predictably, “I Love It”) and though the latter--a Charli XCX co-written club banger--still stands out high above the rest of the album’s tracks, the songs that comprise This Is...Icona Pop are even larger and louder than their predecessors.
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Oct 4, 2013Basically, you can listen to all 11 tracks of This Is... Icona Pop and have a reasonable time, or you can put I Love It on repeat, forever, and have the time of your life.
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Oct 3, 2013It’s not a terrible album. It’s not a spectacular train wreck. It is, in fact, so remarkably unremarkable that neither a glowing nor incinerating score feel deserved.
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Oct 1, 2013This Is… Icona Pop is a worthwhile listen because it doesn’t dumb down. It’s not trying to enlighten, either.
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Entertainment WeeklySep 27, 2013What starts out as jubilant becomes four-on-the-floor purgatory. [4 Oct 2013, p.64]
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Sep 27, 2013It plays like a sweet-toothed sparring session, one punch after the next of joyful high-pitched barking.
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Sep 26, 2013The first seven songs play out like a 20-minute power hour, but the album loses a bit of steam after that.
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Sep 26, 2013In the end, you love this album. Of course you do. But not as much as you could have, and when you have this much potential and youthful energy on your hands, that sin is almost unforgivable.
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Sep 25, 2013This Is… Icona Pop is not revolutionary, original, or inventive.... What This Is… Icona Pop, and Icona Pop as an artistic duo, possess that few others can lay claim to, is a firm grasp on the musical zeitgeist.
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Sep 24, 2013It’s a refreshingly fun album with no pretenses, just plenty of sing-along hooks and dancefloor jams.
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Sep 23, 2013This Is...Icona Pop is a consistently fun album, and it would be even without their big single.
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Sep 23, 2013While most of the concerns expressed in This Is... seem wafer-thin, the innovative production and diamond-hard songcraft suggest something else entirely. Icona Pop has few equals in the current landscape when it comes to immaculately crafted radio-dance music.
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Under The RadarSep 19, 2013This is... succeeds where most modern pop records fail: it's nurturing, exciting, and very intelligent debut. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.91]
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Sep 19, 2013This Is... Icona Pop, like Carly Rae Jepsen's "Kiss," may someday be viewed as a full-length that included one pop masterpiece, but that underscores the delectability of the treats Icona Pop has sprinkled around that triumph.
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Sep 19, 2013The pair instill joy and charm (and an occasional telltale Swedish accent) in head-hammering up-in-theclub chants about eternal weekends and heedless vitality.
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Sep 19, 2013Even when they're shouting, they do so in a particularly musical and distinctive way, and although their smash is one of five This Is… songs the duo had no hand in writing, they nevertheless suggest a consistent sense of authorship through the intensity of their shared ecstasies and frustrations.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 40 out of 49
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Mixed: 4 out of 49
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Negative: 5 out of 49
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