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Jun 23, 2022If it doesn’t achieve the long-promised outcome of “filler-free” Foals, Life Is Yours unexpectedly thrives when it reintegrates the studio trickery that used to weigh down previous side Bs.
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Jun 20, 2022Certainly, there’s an appealing directness to the maximalist likes of Wake Me Up, with its bellowed chorus seemingly precision-tooled for festival crowds. ... Unfortunately, the quality flags as the album goes on, and the undistinguished likes of Crest of the Wave only succeed in coming across like an ersatz Everything Everything.
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Jun 14, 2022As there is little deviation, you wonder if the band had control with the various producers largely going along with what the band wanted rather than trying to exert their own influences over the record. Whilst it does work at times, Life Is Yours will probably find itself confined to the list of also-ran albums of 2022 as a whole.
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MojoJun 13, 2022It's a beguiling mix for the most part, even if they have overly sacrificed melody on the altar of rhythm. [Jul 2022, p.93]
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UncutJun 13, 2022An album of skippy, infectious, electronics-soaked disco rock. [Jul 2022, p.26]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 25
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Mixed: 3 out of 25
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Negative: 1 out of 25
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