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Aug 28, 2015The ten-percent of the album that isn't a sparkling slow jam or midtempo cut is a swift and uplifting jam that approximates a super session with Dâm-Funk, the-Dream, and 1984 Prince. It leads off--both a sly fake-out and a hell of a way to open one of 2015's most pleasurable debuts.
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Aug 10, 2015Dornik has come out of leftfield to release one of the best quality and most addictive pop records of recent times.
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Q MagazineAug 25, 2015An emerging songwriting talent with a style and sophistication all his own. [Oct 2015, p.107]
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Aug 17, 2015Although still a little too in thrall to his influences, there’s enough personality here to set him apart.
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Aug 10, 2015Dornik’s voice wafts past like a poolside waiter, in service of the scenery, not standing out from it. Ultimately, the album has the same effect: but it’s still the season’s coolest British background music.
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Aug 10, 2015It’s a polished, well-crafted debut.
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Aug 31, 2015The lyrics rarely transcend pillow talk, but it hardly matters; Dornik leaves the poetry to the arrangements.
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Aug 12, 2015It’s left to the previously-released singles to save Dornik from disappointing mediocrity.
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Aug 10, 2015The album never regains ["Strong's"] scuttling momentum, lapsing into a boudoir-soul bubble-bath that, with too much immersion, leaves one’s interest wrinkling.