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Mar 18, 2013A charming, optimistic LP, delivered with a smile.
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Mar 13, 2013It’s truly dreamy.
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Mar 7, 2013The Norwegian band’s debut full-length Between Places drips with a youthful joie de vivre.
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Mar 6, 2013Each track is ambitious and meticulously honed, gravitating around woozy melodies that lilt like palm trees in a West Coast breeze.
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Mar 4, 2013The album sometimes amazingly sounds as if the Zombies had reunited in 1980 for an album produced by the Buggles' Trevor Horn, resulting in a joyful, 50-minute orgasm of chamber pop jubilation.
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UncutMar 5, 2013What raises Between Places above simple pastiche are the electronic flourishes and surges of pounding drums that pepper the album. [Apr 2013, p.79]
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Mar 4, 2013If you like your summer pop to keep you on your toes then this is definitely for you. Otherwise this is an impressively ambitious if somewhat misguided debut from a band well worth keeping tabs on.
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Mar 4, 2013Young Dreams have created a collection that compacts all the sunny sounds of youthful hopes and expectations into one blissful whole.
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Q MagazineMar 12, 2013Fortunately, the game of spot-the-influences swiftly gives way to more complex pleasures. [Apr 2013, p.113]
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Mar 11, 2013The band’s songwriting chops are evident on Between Places, and it’s refreshing for a debut to err on the side of being too ambitious, when so many new indie bands nowadays suffer from the opposite problem. But the content of these songs doesn’t quite earn their epic execution.
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May 21, 2013Young Dreams need to tap into this Nordic tradition and come up with something a little bit more compelling next time.
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Mar 4, 2013For the most part, though, debut album Between Places cuts and pastes a series of well meaning but unengaging pop vignettes.