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Entertainment WeeklyMar 8, 2013Natalie Bergman and her brother Elliot are too inventive to get cast as style-rock band, experimenting with African thumb pianos, dub-reggae grooves, and sultry soul vocals with deep pass-the-dutchie raspiness. [15 Mar 2013, p.62]
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Mar 8, 2013With its exotic instruments and spacious arrangements, this is a first-rate pop album that doesn’t sound quite like anything else on pop radio.
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Apr 1, 2013The mood is enriched by an ambitious approach to what seems on the surface to be modest pop songs, which reveal themselves to be far more elaborate, challenging and unusual.
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Mar 21, 2013Wild Belle’s debut is a respectable exercise of ethereal pop.
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Mar 13, 2013Natalie’s embattled relationship tales balance the island vibes, and Elliot’s expressive backdrops frame each without battling for attention.
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Mar 11, 2013With songs largely based around Natalie's love of soul and melodic '60s pop, Wild Belle have a less frenetic, if still hypnotically languid take on NOMO's world fusion sound.
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Mar 8, 2013Isles ends up an easy pleasure--nothing too weighty, but substantial in its way.
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Mar 13, 2013Without their smart lyrics and complex instrumentation, listeners would feel like they're listening to the same song again and again.
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Mar 12, 2013Ultimately, Isles falls somewhere between juvenile and sophisticated, which puts it comfortably in the mystifying realm of American pop.
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Mar 18, 2013All in all, with Isles, Wild Belle is sure to attract many visitors who will visit for a quick party, but end up staying on for the island romance.
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Mar 15, 2013Sure Isles coasts at times, snoozes on occasion and pales if compared to, say, Taken by Trees’ similarly tropical but superior Other Worlds but its bonhomie and infectious, wide-eyed perkiness still warrants a good ol’ holiday-romance romp in the dunes.
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Mar 8, 2013Happily, their music is less predictable than that geographical inevitability.
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Mar 11, 2013While the album is described as a myriad of styles, there’s nothing to really demonstrate this: only the reggae and reggae-related genres are consistently and tiresomely reflected.
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UncutMar 8, 2013Manicured cuteness, trite melodies and a tendency to banal, genial navelgazing leave an impression of carpet-bagging slackers contriving decorous but vapid Tourist Board pop. [Mar 2013, p.79]
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Q MagazineMar 11, 2013[Natalie Bergman's] undoubtedly gifted, but the end result feels as passionless as a first date at Starbucks. [Apr 2013, p.112]
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Mar 11, 2013It’s about as exotic as a cocktail umbrella.