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Jan 26, 2012'80s synthpop pandering aside, Welcome Reality is a beautifully realized vision of an album whose pomp and bombast will appeal to those looking for pop that goes beyond dancing.
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Dec 19, 2011Welcome Reality pulls dubstep toward the arena-pop spotlight without leaving its shadows behind.
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Dec 19, 2011Had Nero not loitered on their cozy euphoric plateau, Welcome Reality may have given those Tron: Legacy co-conspirators a good fight.
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Dec 13, 2011Buried beneath the relentless, grinding beats and wobbly bass tremors, Welcome Reality is home to a potentially great but unfinished sci-fi blockbuster soundtrack, but unable to sustain its early momentum, it ends up being merely a solid first offering rather than the trail-blazing spectacular that was anticipated.
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Entertainment WeeklyDec 9, 2011Beneath the blistering beats, Reality reveals some serious electro-pop sparkle. [16 Dec 2011, p.83]
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Aug 22, 2011The relentless energy expended throughout the album will no doubt also make the album appeal to fans of Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Pendulum or the Prodigy. But listeners with a broader appreciation of dance and electronic music would be well advised to source their dubstep fix from elsewhere.
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Aug 17, 2011Ultimately, despite its makers' impressive credentials, this debut long-player is destined for the homes of listeners with more Basshunter in their collection than Burial.
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Q MagazineAug 16, 2011London "ravestep" duo make vividly raucous debut. [Sept. 2011, p. 115]
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Aug 16, 2011Their command of "neeeooow" noises suggests a schooling in retro rave, and their cover of the Jets' "Crush" turns the sugary original into something superbly sinister and stalker-ish.
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Aug 15, 2011Welcome Reality gets it half right--this is a decent debut which more than lives up to the hype, but is so mind-blowingly out-there that any suggestion that it resembles 'reality' ought to launch a Trading Standards investigation.
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Aug 12, 2011As effective as it is predictable, Welcome Reality will inevitably soundtrack thousands of summer and fall blowouts. Even if they're just fiddling with the formula, Nero understand how to make things burn.
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Aug 12, 2011Watson gives Nero's robotic skronk a rare injection of humanity, and the U.K. producers are smart enough to build most of their debut full-length around her husky voice.
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Aug 12, 2011Despite all the prog allusions and big concepts, it turns out what Nero are really good at is something all the prog allusions and big concepts suggest they might disdain: pop music.
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Aug 12, 2011Most of Welcome Reality is so in your face and predictable it feels like the musical equivalent of a Michael Bay movie: loud, crass, periodically fun, but ultimately forgettable.
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Positive: 50 out of 54
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Mixed: 0 out of 54
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Negative: 4 out of 54
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