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Apr 30, 2014Albarn has just unveiled quite arguably the best album of his career--solo or otherwise--with Everyday Robots.
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Apr 28, 2014Everyday Robots is a graceful and beguiling album from an artist that continues to explore, mature and surprise us with each release. Not bad for a debut album.
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Apr 22, 2014It’ll take some time to get to grips with, and requires input--this isn’t a passive album--but you reap what you sow, and if you take enough time with Everyday Robots, you’ll be rewarded with a dazzling LP that’ll lodge itself in your mind from now until your last breath.
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Apr 29, 2014Modern life might still be rubbish, but it is rarely shown to be so beguilingly beautiful.
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May 6, 2014The relationship between the music and Albarn’s voice deepens the album’s theme.
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May 5, 2014The result is an album that humanizes the machine and peels back a layer from Albarn's life while adding more to the music.
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Apr 29, 2014Everyday Robots, unfolds as a sleepy, melancholy culmination of all Albarn’s work so far. And if sweat still isn’t showing, a little distress is.
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Apr 29, 2014This is serious music. Albarn has stated that this is his most personal record and he ain't kidding.
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Apr 28, 2014Musically, there's an intelligence that extends way beyond the churning indie anthems of Albarn's youth.
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Apr 28, 2014Albarn pulls you close and whispers the codes of his life into your ear. Switch settings to ‘decipher’.
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Apr 28, 2014Upon repeated listens, the sorrowful undertow of Everyday Robots becomes a comfort, a balm for moments of alienation; it's the kind of record that when you're lonely, you press play.
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Apr 28, 2014It’s a “grower” if there ever was one. And when it finally blooms in your ears, you’ll find yourself thinking “ah, so this is why I’ve been following this guy for all these years.”
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Apr 28, 2014An intimate, introspective album that takes tentative steps to reveal the soul behind the star.
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Apr 25, 2014In a mood of nostalgia, Albarn is looking back at his life as it unspools over some of his most subtle, beautiful and melancholy melodies, rendered in a slightly hung-over, low-fi tone, occasionally pepped up by samples from producer Richard Russell.
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Apr 25, 2014Like most things, it’s worth the wait.
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Apr 24, 2014The music is good enough that a lack of revelation doesn't really seem to matter while Everyday Robots is playing. Whoever Damon Albarn is, he's extremely good at what he does.
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MojoApr 23, 2014Subtly psychedelic, intuitively clever and constantly challenging, Everyday Robots underlines that Albarn is an artist of originality and depth, a master of the haunting, insidious melody and--perhaps this needs no reiteration--a gifted, inventive musician. [May 2014, p.84]
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Q MagazineApr 23, 2014Everyday Roberts is a wonderful record. [May 2014, p.104]
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Apr 22, 2014["Mr Tembo" is] a rare moment of extrovert cheer on an intimate, introspective album that takes tentative steps to reveal the soul behind the star.
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UncutApr 22, 2014Everyday Robots is a less ebullient, more intimate and reflective affair, as befits the tentative revelation of a man's soul. [May 2014, p.63]
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Apr 22, 2014It doesn’t burn out so much as creep up and these songs offer yet another new guise for a remarkable talent.
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Apr 22, 2014The results can often recall Seventies Eno at his most meditative and Village Green-era Ray Davies at his most world-sick more than Gorillaz's bounce or Blur's guitar buzz.
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Apr 29, 2014For an artist who has capably proved he can do pretty much anything, Everyday Robots is perfectly modest in its ambitions. But it's still full of winning surprises--even if they aren't as worthy as a pub band sit-in.
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Apr 29, 2014Ultimately, Everyday Robots just sounds like another great album from one of pop music’s most fearless sonic chameleons.
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Apr 28, 2014Albarn’s still very good at writing songs. And with this introspective statement, he’s not showing any sign of growing stale.
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May 1, 2014The album unravels its charms slowly and deliberately and after it’s over you’ll be beckoned back to soak in more of its sublime, beguiling mystique.
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Apr 28, 2014Robots is decidedly lowercase music, more a piece of his puzzle than a picture on its own.
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Apr 24, 2014Everyday Robots is a lovely record, and in its lack of duds or whimsical twattery it’s probably one of most consistent things Albarn has ever put his name to. That doesn't make it the best, though: it doesn't take risks--not by Albarn’s standards, anyway--and in the most literal sense it's not all that exciting.
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Apr 24, 2014By and large, this is a downbeat record, one suggesting maybe Albarn recently had a listen to ‘Mr Robinson’s Quango’ and decided never to do ‘whimsical’ again. Still, there’s a couple of more upbeat numbers that work in neat counterpoint.
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Positive: 65 out of 80
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Mixed: 12 out of 80
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Negative: 3 out of 80
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