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Apr 22, 2014While not a reinvention, Joyland does an excellent job of sharpening and streamlining Trust’s sound into something even better than that displayed on the debut.
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Apr 7, 2014Although playful in a creative way, this is a serious album.
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Mar 4, 2014A beautiful and often brave-sounding album, Joyland shows how much can be gained by letting go.
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Mar 4, 2014Although a few tracks ("Geryon," "Four Gut") suffer from muddy and unfocused melodies, there are far too many great ideas, quirky earworms and sonic peaks to give any critic reason to lampoon the title of this well-conceived, well-executed album.
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Mar 31, 2014It’s lucky for us that Joyland so often yields gems amongst the heavy strata of computerized monoliths.
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Mar 4, 2014It may not be as bold or as striking as TRST, but as a solid sophomore release, the band has definitely gained our trust.
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Mar 4, 2014Joyland is going to take a few more spins than TRST to really set in, but the deeper you dig, the more you realize how meaty it is.
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Mar 14, 2014The oily, immersive Joyland's very nearly the equal of its predecessor. But with so many similarities--and so little growth--between the two records, it's a little like spending another night at the same club: once you've gotten the lay of the land, the thrills are never quite so thrilling.
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Mar 6, 2014An intensified ambiguity bathed in technological sentiment.
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MagnetMar 12, 2014["Are We Arc" is] a mid-album highlight to an otherwise mostly forgettable sophomore effort. [No. 107, p.59]
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Apr 3, 2014Trust's songs are often strong, though, and work best when Alfons manipulates his vocals towards higher pitches, allowing his melodies to shine and the music to stand out from the synth-pop crowd.
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Mar 7, 2014In the absence, though, of the gritty murk of TRST and the intimations of a world of malformed sonic objects outside the techno-primitive beat, there’s a quality of the streamlined on Joyland that calls out for irritation.
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Mar 4, 2014A record that’s all too often content with mediocrity even though its finest moments reveal just how close it came to greatness.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 17 out of 20
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Mixed: 2 out of 20
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Negative: 1 out of 20
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Feb 22, 2019He is taking the Pop/Electronic music to the future, Joyland is a masterpiece.
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Dec 3, 2014