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Feb 10, 2020Its genesis was borne of urgency, and that’s a feeling that permeates every aspect of an album that positively twitches with energy.
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Feb 7, 2020On All or Nothing, Shopping talk big and play loud, showing their sharp sense of what makes people move. It's an album that just can't wait to be released, to spread its way through a gathered crowd — and, at last, to watch the motion begin.
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Q MagazineFeb 6, 2020They make modern life's drain and strain exhilarating. [Mar 2020, p.120]
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UncutFeb 6, 2020A taut, lean 30-minute manifesto of a record which contains some of their most tuneful, groove-oriented songs yet. [Mar 2020, p.32]
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Feb 6, 2020‘All or Nothing’ is a grand refinement of their previous work, rather than a reinvention. Still retained is that amazing sense of propulsion and momentum the group have made their own; ‘Initiative’ and ‘Body Clock’ are impossibly fast, constantly threatening to overbalance themselves, yet always remaining resolute and gloriously intact.
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Feb 12, 2020Shopping isn’t trying to become more commercial or appealing on a wider scale, but they undertook this sonic shift because, as a band that has long been heralded for its dance-y vibe, the incorporation of electronic elements seems to be a natural progression in order to make the most well-rounded version of what their music conveys.
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Feb 10, 2020For all their wiry energy and staccato sloganeering, Shopping have always embraced pop melody and absurdist humor, and All or Nothing’s more polished production pushes those qualities to the fore.
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Feb 24, 2020Dance is the operative word across this tight 30-minute release, synths entering the spartan mix in an even more prominent way. This isn't the post-punk revival going disco, but it might be post-punk on a night out at the disco.
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Feb 18, 2020Shopping may have settled on a lateral move with All or Nothing, but it's still a strong case for more converters to jump onto their bandwagon.
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Feb 10, 2020All or Nothing is undeniably impressive, but at the cost of some of the heart that's as vital to Shopping's music as their brilliant interplay.
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Feb 10, 2020Whether you meet All Or Nothing with the same energy depends on your hunger for more of a style already so thoroughly revived; for an album whose songs champion agency and resistance, its sounds are somewhat off-the-shelf.
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Feb 6, 2020Seven years on from their first record, Shopping are still giving audacious levels of energy. It would be interesting to see the band develop their electronic experiments even further in their next album; though All or Nothing builds on its predecessor, it only gives us a taste of what the trio can do when left alone with a synth.