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Feb 18, 2014All Love's Legal is the kind of record that reaffirms your faith in the power of music.
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Feb 20, 2014Gendered pronouns do not appear on the album, thus the record feels distant, as if Rostron is isolated from the listener, a tactic that makes the album intriguingly impersonal yet universal.
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Q MagazineFeb 14, 2014Lyrically and musically, as remarkable an album as you'll hear all 2014. [Mar 2014, p.119]
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Feb 11, 2014It has hooks galore, but embedded in brilliantly strange music.
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Feb 7, 2014Although the album may carry a serious and meaningful message, Rostron has enough hard-won maturity as an artist to know that vinegar only attracts flies, and All Love's Legal is a perfect marriage of thought-provoking and hip-shaking.
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Feb 3, 2014It’s a fun record, and as adventurous as we’ve come to expect from Planningtorock.
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Feb 3, 2014With no twee gimmicks, vibrant colour and bold substance are present in spades, resulting in an album that’s nothing short of a masterclass in left-of-centre dance music.
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Feb 14, 2014There's an organic, humanistic ethos operating behind her music: we are all people, and we're all moved by the same primal passions and stimuli.
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Feb 6, 2014It deceptively makes you think there’s not much happening here but is in fact a highly complex thing that needs care and attention, only then do you realize we have been offered Rostron’s heart on a plate.
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UncutFeb 3, 2014It's an album of disco torch songs with the usual glib lyrics about good times and sexy dancers replaced by light-hearted queer/feminist sloganeering. [Mar 2014, p.82]
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Feb 18, 2014Even though the album's well-intentioned concepts don't always work, Rostron remains an artist with bold ideas.
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Feb 12, 2014Rostrum is probably destined to stay a cult interest for now, but if you’re looking for dance music with a pulse and a brain, then she’s guaranteed to be your new jam.
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Feb 10, 2014It’s a brave record, but also a frustrating one. While you’re persuaded by the clarity of Rostron’s vision, it’s hard not to also suspect a shortage of ideas.
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Feb 3, 2014With song titles such as Beyond Binary Binds, it would sound like a cultural studies dissertation, if it weren't all couched in surprisingly banging tunes such as Public Love.
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Feb 3, 2014Politically charged dance music may not appeal to everyone but, on her third album, Planningtorock serves it up anyway.
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Feb 26, 2014Padding the album with ambient interstitials would be a forgivable peccadillo were the other songs seriously weighty--after all, even Kid A had 'Treefingers'--but the remaining seven tracks can themselves come off as a little half-baked.
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Feb 19, 2014Because All Love’s Legal is so straightforward, so obvious, it can never capture your imagination with the charismatic subjectivity that is the province of the best musicians and artists.
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Feb 10, 2014Almost nothing about it works.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 21
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Mixed: 5 out of 21
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Negative: 5 out of 21
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