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Apr 8, 2013Overall, the Recover EP is a perfect stepping stone in Chvrches’ brick road.
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Mar 28, 2013Stop what you’re doing and get this EP, and keep going.
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Mar 27, 2013The trio’s past experiences may explain how it manages to exercise a seasoned talent for both variety and control.... The two “Recover” remixes, by Austria’s Cid Rim and U.K.-based Curxes, are filler. They’re pleasant on their own, but neither can hold up to the original.
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Mar 27, 2013Expectations are high, sure, but the group has reassured their true believers with a solid cornerstone of an EP.
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Mar 26, 2013[Title track "Recover" is] so freakishly great, there’s no way Chvrches can follow it--at least not on this EP.
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Mar 26, 2013Lauren Mayberry and her two beardo bandmates revisit the frosty New Wave of Yaz and early Depeche Mode while adding staccato, percussive glitches that echo but don't mimic the Eighties.
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Mar 25, 2013The band turns more toward heartfelt pop. [Mar-Apr 2013, p.103]
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Mar 25, 2013Chvrches makes prickly early-’80s synth-pop that recalls fellow revivalists Robyn and La Roux.
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Mar 25, 2013Chvrches are effortless and close to svblime.
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Mar 25, 2013They're still honing the edge that's going to set them apart. But for the time being, the hooks are enough to convert plenty of true believers.
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Mar 25, 2013While Recover may not be a religious experience itself, it’s a pretty divine couple of minutes and, hopefully, an omen of things to come from the icy Glaswegians.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 23
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Mixed: 3 out of 23
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Negative: 1 out of 23
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May 5, 2013