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Jun 27, 2017With Woodstock, Portugal. The Man continues to be exceptionally colorful, polished, moving, and determined. Sure, the group has lost a sliver of their uniqueness in the move toward a more commercially viable and accessible sound, but the vast majority of their idiosyncratic identity is still here.
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Jun 16, 2017It's an enormous-sounding, splashy album.
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Jun 16, 2017As the album of record, it does aptly chronicle Portugal. The Man’s unabashed musical evolution/experimentation from album to album. Despite its bucolic, peaceful namesake, it’s a decidedly grimey vivisection of millennial pop expressly positioned to act as revolutionary mouthpiece for a generation of the disillusioned.
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Jul 7, 2017Again and again, Woodstock promises a protest but delivers a party.
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MojoJun 16, 2017Bouncy production keep things light; Pharrell-ish Feel It Still, soulful So Young; but perhaps too light. [Jul 2017, p.96]
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Jun 16, 2017While all that tinkering and aiming for the center have reached their payoff with the most commercially viable record of the group’s career, something of what made Portugal. The Man unique feels like it’s been lost.
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Jun 21, 2017Instead of putting their own offbeat stamp on danceable pop music, Portugal. The Man abandons their once-unique sound and retreats into imitation.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 42 out of 57
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Mixed: 10 out of 57
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Negative: 5 out of 57
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Mar 26, 2019the critics definitely got this one wrong. This album has a lot of energy, with so many catchy songs that you just keep coming back to the album.