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Q MagazineDec 8, 2014Each song still has the inevitable moment of electronic ascent but, as with Coldplay's Recent break-up record, you can';t help but wonder how these songs might've sounded left raw and unslickened. [Jan 2015, p.133]
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Dec 8, 2014He seems like a featured artist on his own album, which would be standard issue for other producers turned artist, but not Guetta.
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Nov 24, 2014The recipe might be different, but the ingredients are largely the same.
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Nov 24, 2014Each track has the invention to be a smash hit but the cumulative effect is rather wearing, an album of no emotional depth, in which everyone is going all out to deliver the big single.
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Jan 5, 2015The songwriting remains basic, as always, and vocalist Sam Martin blandly belts "Lovers on the Sun" and the club hit "Dangerous." But the album sounds consistently great.
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Dec 8, 2014Listen speckles similar crackers (‘Goodbye Friend’, ‘Hey Mama’) between gushes of sizzle sewage, as if all of Ibiza’s been trying to get high on glittery laxatives.
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Nov 24, 2014Guetta’s signature throb--so loud in its way that it almost loops back around to silence--is inescapable, overpowering almost every other song with a booming lushness that’s used seemingly by numbing default.
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Nov 24, 2014Listen still delivers the familiar crowd-pleasing builds and drops, the formulaic song structures.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 57 out of 108
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Mixed: 17 out of 108
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Negative: 34 out of 108
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