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Mar 7, 2016If you’ve yet to indulge in this band’s output, you really ought to, bearing in mind this is now the third album in a row where their strange but endearing music hits the spot.
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Mar 4, 2016This mix of genres at work makes for an exciting listen, another addictive affair of dark melody and bold beats from a trio that excels in intelligent, deftly produced art pop.
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UncutFeb 23, 2016A cameo from run The jewels is a final treat on an album full of them. [Apr 2016, p.76]
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Mar 4, 2016The misfires on iii are few, and this is a record that deserves spins not only from Miike Snow diehards, but also those who believe the group may not be their cup of tea.
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Mar 3, 2016For Miike Snow, words are hardly the point. iii’s guiding principle seems to be style over substance--and Miike Snow have that in spades.
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Mar 28, 2016Admittedly, iii flirts dangerously with its commercial sound, to the displeasure of fans used to Miike Snow’s earlier work. But there is no denying the creepy genius of Genghis Khan, the frenzied fun of For U (a collaboration with Charli XCX, no less), or the unapologetic bounce of The Heart of Me.
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Mar 11, 2016The production cylinders are firing, but the songcraft, so present on the first six tracks, doesn’t keep up with the pace. Even so, certain elements reveal a band committed to trying things out, making pop songs in unlikely formats, and having fun doing it.
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Mar 15, 2016It remains a fun and enjoyable pop record, even if its creators do seem more reluctant than ever to venture from their well established comfort zones.
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Mar 4, 2016Falling somewhere in between the sophistication of Everything Everything and the flamboyancy of Maroon Five, it isn’t until the halfway point, and ‘I Feel the Weight’ that the familiar chill of previous releases is restored.
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Mar 4, 2016It’s a pleasantly relaxed portrait of a band kicking back and stretching its legs.
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Mar 3, 2016The architecture of these layered slices of electro-pop is transparent, but the songs never offer more than surface pleasures.
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Mar 3, 2016It’s an album that feels insubstantial at times, but is a lot of fun nevertheless.
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Mar 2, 2016As accessible as most of it is, though, the band can’t seem to resist throwing strange electronic sounds and off-kilter ideas into the mix, which helps offset some of their blander tendencies.
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MojoFeb 23, 2016Closer listening finds thin-voiced New Yorker Andrew Wyatt undercutting the Swedish Britney Spears producers' sleek earworms with sing-along melancholy. [Apr 2016, p.96]
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Q MagazineFeb 23, 2016Confidence is attractive, but iii is a little too composed. [Apr 2016, p.111]
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Mar 1, 2016Aside from “For U” (which features Charli XCX) and its Bloc Party aping intro, almost all of the fist-pumping energy of the debut has receded into a more mature, yet less thrilling persona.
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Mar 11, 2016It wants to achieve what other singles artists (Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber) do with hits-and-filler records that boast enough of the former to justify the existence of the latter. Instead, Miike Snow’s got the filler but only half-failed attempts at hits.
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Feb 23, 2016The banality throughout iii detracts from any basic pleasure possible from the beats. [Jan/Feb 2016, p.57]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 21
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Mixed: 5 out of 21
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Negative: 1 out of 21
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Mar 4, 2016