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Nov 15, 201218 Months shows Harris to be a solid producer with an easily identifiable sound.
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Nov 15, 2012Unfortunately, tracks like [Rihanna's "We Found Love"] and, to a lesser extent, Welch's slightly crowded "Sweet Nothing" float like life rafts atop a sugary sea of tunes that will be the soundtrack of television commercials for months to come.
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Nov 15, 2012His new album is called 18 Months, but it doesn't sound like it took anywhere near that long to make.
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Nov 15, 2012This album feels more like a deserved victory lap than a forward step or a new instalment, but apart from his sole vocal on 'Feel So Close', the victor seems oddly absent.
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Dec 13, 2012this sounds like the soundtrack to the hell of cheese-ball Las Vegas bottle service clubs.
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Feb 6, 2013While 18 Months, Harris’s third solo full-length, is pretty much the hit-making monster that launched him in to the world spotlight, the truth of the matter is that it feels like a rather compromised vision of who he is an artist, sacrificing his quirkiness for a brooding new persona that starts to get stale over the course of a complete full-length.
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Q MagazineNov 21, 2012In a half-hearted effort to dilute the homogeneity, Harris grouts 18 Months with flimsy instrumentals, as if to create the illusion of a proper album. He's not fooling anyone--maybe not even himself. [Dec 2012, p.108]
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Nov 15, 2012This album is less a monument to the human experience and more a harbinger of the rise of the machines.
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Nov 15, 2012For all the pop divas he has roped in, there's a veneer of cynical, laddy EDM, resulting in the kind of tracks Skrillex might come up with on an Ayia Napa booze cruise.
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Nov 15, 2012The poorest served is hapless Ellie Goulding, struggling against the hurtling momentum of "I Need Your Love"; more successful is Florence Welch on "Sweet Nothing".
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Nov 15, 2012Harris's production has become increasingly homogenised and, despite the array of vocalists, everything here risks sounding the same.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 68 out of 93
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Mixed: 17 out of 93
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Negative: 8 out of 93
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May 12, 2013
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