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Jun 27, 2022Released from both internal and external shackles, Muna feels like phase two for one of pop’s best bands.
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Jun 22, 2022From its overall sound down to its finer details, Gavin, Maskin and McPherson have hit the mark completely. It’s amazing to see a band that are so unapologetically queer excel at their craft and create an album that is quite possibly, if not certainly, their masterpiece.
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Jun 24, 2022They're offering something new with 'MUNA' - evolving, inspiring, and taking us along for the [horse] ride.
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Jun 22, 2022The most roundly captivating pop album released so far this year, indie or not. It’s a record to wear out through Labor Day, if not longer.
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Jun 24, 2022MUNA is the best soundtrack one can find for the next few months. Seemingly destined to join the canon of pop’s great cult-classics (Carly Rae Jepsen’s Emotion, Robyn’s Body Talk, among them), it’s an album whose legacy should last much longer.
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Jun 28, 2022On MUNA, the group has crafted a collection boldly exploring how being queer is composed of joys and traumas, and there’s no shame in messily embracing both. As they put it on their first album, we are loudspeakers.
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Jun 24, 2022The album is both consistently breezy and emotionally upfront, going to-and-fro between galvanising dance anthems and gentle, psychedelic country ballads à la Kacey Musgrave’s Golden Hour.
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Jun 23, 2022By now, it should be clear that this lot know how to pen a whopper of a pop anthem – that remains apparent here – but more crucially ‘MUNA’ also serves as solid evidence of a band with many more chapters of evolution up their sleeves yet.
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Jun 22, 2022It’s by far the happiest MUNA have sounded; a celebratory expression of queer love that loses none of the trio’s magic.
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Jun 28, 2022On their self-titled third album, MUNA step fully into their role as pop stars and mentors, offering gentle instructions for falling in love, dusting yourself off, and joyfully living your truth.
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Jun 22, 2022From "Runner's High," the album can drag until the second half, which has many more acoustic ballads.
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Jun 24, 2022Although the songwriting is intimate with the trio’s personal thoughts and feelings, the production and vocal choices sometimes are found lacking.
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Jul 12, 2022While the rest of the record never quite reaches that level of instantaneous pop gratification [as "Silk Chiffon"], Muna still turn in some of their better songs from there while also taking their sound to new places.
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Positive: 22 out of 32
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Mixed: 3 out of 32
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Negative: 7 out of 32
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