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Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Q Magazine
    Dec 8, 2014
    80
    Natural Selection is a triumph of style and content. [Jan 2015, p.120]
  2. Dec 1, 2014
    80
    Dark, beautiful, and deft, Natural Selection should only be played at night, but it should be played on most nights, and maybe on some rainy, especially hazy afternoons.
  3. Dec 1, 2014
    70
    Solid if unspectacular then, yet you’ll find that, much like when in high school, it’s always worth checking out the Art Department.
  4. Dec 4, 2014
    60
    When they let their experimental impulses coexist with their pop instincts, the results are strong enough to overshadow the occasional misstep.
  5. Dec 1, 2014
    50
    While there is nothing here to relegate Art Department to the role of also-rans, there is nothing to get wholly excited about either, as the music consistently retreats towards the background.
  6. Dec 1, 2014
    40
    Where their first album felt like a definitive statement, Natural Selection sounds, as so many second albums do, like a diffuse bunch of half-realised ideas.
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  1. Dec 5, 2014
    7
    This could be the best tech-house album in five years. Some tracks are impressively dark and smooth but it lacks uniformity. It takes tooThis could be the best tech-house album in five years. Some tracks are impressively dark and smooth but it lacks uniformity. It takes too much to get from one great part of the album to thew other, specifically from what I believe to be the best track, "It's through," to "Cruel intentions." Together with Peaking Lights' and Caribou's latest works, this album it's some of the best electronic music of the year. Full Review »