Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Jul 13, 2015Ultimately, Years & Years are so passionately in touch with their influences, they've transformed them into something new and full of the light.
-
Jul 10, 2015Broaching love, lust, power-dynamics, jealousy, and heartbreak along the way, Years & Years bring that all important human touch to their massive pop anthems.
-
Q MagazineJul 6, 2015Years & Years may not be with us for the long haul. But right now, they're picture perfect. [Aug 2015, p.110]
-
Jul 9, 2015Communion is brimming with razor-sharp summer pop anthems that succeed in bringing a smile to your face time and time again.
-
Jul 16, 2015Here, and on the album’s other highlights, the air of mercantile anonymity feels generous rather than cynical, the music as anxious to accommodate its imagined audience.
-
Jul 23, 2015Iif you’re looking for some pop perfection, this album displays it in droves.... However, things take a huge tumble when Years & Years try not to stick to their confessional-electronic niche.
-
Jul 15, 2015All of these lyrical open wounds could be hard to stomach if not for the salve that Emre Turkmen and Mikey Goldsworthy’s head-spinning instrumentals provide.
-
Jul 8, 2015Accepting the accomplishments on this album of diet club music perhaps requires a suspension of distaste for bandwagoners and carpetbaggers. But in this album’s most thrilling moments, whether the music is effective because it’s familiar or familiar because it’s effective almost ceases to be a concern.
-
Jul 7, 2015Communion’s minimal song titles are indicative of a no-nonsense approach to song writing--but like most good pop songs they unpeel different layers of production with repeated listening.
-
Jul 6, 2015Behind the dance bump, Communion is confessional synth-pop with a heart full of heavy feelings.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 126 out of 146
-
Mixed: 12 out of 146
-
Negative: 8 out of 146
-
Jul 10, 2015
-
Jul 17, 2015
-
Sep 26, 2015