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  • Summary: Chris Hughes and Mark Frith return to produce the fourth release for the British indie pop band led by brothers, Alex and Thomas White.
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  1. Jun 20, 2013
    90
    It’s a beautifully sunny, unashamedly melodic tour de force which pitches up somewhere between a fevered Beatles obsession and a well-loved pile of Go-Betweens records.
  2. Mojo
    Jul 10, 2013
    80
    Perfect-pitch harmonies and chiming guitars glide through 10 tracks of heartbreaks, make-ups and drunken misadventures disguised as glorious summertime breezes. [Aug 2013, p.91]
  3. Jun 20, 2013
    70
    Idiots is the wonderful sound of The Electric Soft Parade belatedly coming of age.
  4. Jun 20, 2013
    70
    A lean, 40-minute LP that’s big on melody and small on post-production .
  5. Jul 8, 2013
    70
    Thomas White sings, oddly enough, too well, lacking the fragility of Nick Drake, the androgyny of Stuart Murdoch, not to mention Jim Morrison's virility.... Idiots! is an excellent journey through the more poppy instincts of Electric Soft Parade.
  6. 60
    When the energy levels fall off entirely on the maudlin piano-powered closer ‘Never Again’, Idiots' early signs of promise seem a pleasant but distant memory.
  7. Q Magazine
    Jun 20, 2013
    40
    The default mode is now so soft as to resemble a big bowl of ice cream for a man who's lost his dentures. [Jul 2013, p.103]
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