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The WireFeb 21, 2022The final few songs swap flash-saturated self-portrait for figure in landscape, brooding and blurred. Their hermetic sound is breached – their future more uncertain than ever – and all the better for it. [Feb 2022, p.47]
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Feb 18, 2022Sad Cities is the best kind of comeback album; one that has just the right amount of nostalgia baked into the grooves, but also adds in new sounds and approaches. Shapiro and Agebjörn certainly do that and the album is a reminder of just how good heartbreak disco can sound when delivered by people who understand it so well.
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Feb 22, 2022It’s self-assured in its awkward swooning, forthright in its faith in four-on-the-floor. In its own way—in its belief that its own way will triumph—Sad Cities is its own kind of triumph.
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UncutFeb 21, 2022Sa Cities puts more weight on mood than on song, though, which means Shapiro, always an elusive singer, sometimes gets lost among all the synths. [Mar 2022, p.35]
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Feb 18, 2022Sad Cities has proved that it can hold its own, and even allows the long-time follower to dwell in times past.