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Jul 19, 2019It is a very enjoyable, incomparable album, with moments of extraordinary depth.
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Jul 19, 2019Emotional Education is a thoughtful, carefully-constructed synthpop odyssey, based at its core around the vocal harmonisation by Lily Somerville and Megan Marwick and lent some tasteful gloss by production work from The xx collaborator Rodaidh McDonald as well as duo MyRiot.
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Jul 19, 2019A supremely assured, instantly addicting debut, it walks the precarious balance beam between earworm and confessional.
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Jul 19, 2019The melodies are good, though Emotional Education lacks the single indelible song that takes a group from admired cult to huge crowds. Imperfect, then, but so many seeds have been planted. Don’t be surprised if Ider’s second album turns out a masterpiece.
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Jul 19, 2019Coherent despite a refusal to adhere to genre-based constraints, Emotional Education is heartbreaking yet hopeful, relatable yet precise. ... As complex and multi-faceted as any woman in her early twenties, IDER’s debut LP is an album made for people like those who wrote it, and is all the stronger for it.
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Jul 22, 2019These 11 songs ping confidently around the post-genre electro-pop landscape.
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Jul 24, 2019Absolutely non outstanding
Not a single track, all bland blank and average just like in the fashion those players evolve.