World, You Need a Change of Mind
- Kindness
- Band Name: Kindness
- Record Label: Terrible Records
- Release Date: May 8, 2012
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May 9, 201280Thanks to Zdar's sure-handed co-production, Bainbridge's skills at synthesizing the past and present, and a batch of songs that really stick to you after a couple listens, World, You Need a Change of Mind ends up being a very pleasing, very interesting record.
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Jul 3, 201270It's actually never quite clear what type of audience the album is trying to reach, but the whole thing seems a lot more cohesive when you realise there is no point, and no direction, and this makes World, You Need a Change of Mind a lot more fun. It's an album full of twists and turns, seemingly whenever Bainbridge gets bored of one sound.
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May 3, 201264World, You Need a Change of Mind certainly isn't a bad album, and the technical execution is first-rate. Its failure is ultimately one of ambition. This is music to be enjoyed while doing something else, not something you fall in love with.
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Mar 15, 201280Deftly blending the celebratory and contemplative, Bainbridge has created a dance album that works as much on the mind as on the body. [Apr 2012, p.99]
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Mar 16, 201290It's certainly a brave move to furnish it with such exotic pieces, but one that pays off beautifully. [Apr 2012, p.81]
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Mar 23, 201280With high-gloss production, shameless retro references and big-thumbed slap bass, Kindness's album is frequently preposterous. Great pop music often is. [Apr 2012, p.89]
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Mar 20, 201240Amid the smartly rendered pastiche of this debut, Bainbridge references Prince and Janet Jackson, yet turns those joyous sounds unpleasantly arch.
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May 8, 201280For the rest of us who don't mind getting our groove on to music served with a side of narcissism, it's not difficult to admit Bainbridge might be onto something.
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Mar 15, 201260It doesn't seem content with just being an enjoyable album, which makes it impossible for this listener to be content with its failure to live up to its own hype.
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Mar 15, 201280For a debut album, there are precious few mis-steps, apart from perhaps a little too much instrumental noodling. But, aside from that, it is remarkably consistent.
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Mar 22, 201260It's classy and airy, although so stylishly produced (with French house guru Cassius) that it can feel like a soundtrack to an imaginary Ideal Home exhibition of laboratory-like perfection.
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May 31, 201240What's missing is the emotional heat.
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Mar 16, 201270For all its capricious cherry-picking of the historic benchmarks of sensuality and synthetics, there's still a sense of genuine invention that permeates the whole album.
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Mar 19, 201280[An] exceptionally artful debut.
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Mar 23, 201250While World, You Need A Change Of Heart is pleasing in places, solid it certainly ain't.
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Mar 19, 201240Its sound design may be impeccable, but World… sorely lacks grit.
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Mar 16, 201280Saxophone solos! Samples that may or may not be from the Sugarhill Gang! The EastEnders theme tune sung in the style of Boyz II Men!
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Apr 11, 201250There are much worse records out there but at the end of the day, and somewhat ironically, it's just much too kind.