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Mar 1, 2018The whole album drips with a palpable sense of lust and intensity.
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Feb 16, 2018Delivering on both slow-burn emotional complexity and quick-hit thrills, Sir is a welcome return for an underrated group whose influence on contemporary pop music is often overlooked.
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Feb 22, 2018Sir is a reputable array of dance-pop staples, the likes of which will please Fischerspooner fans of this and past generations.
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Feb 20, 2018Four albums later, Fischerspooner have proven they are anything but a one-hit wonder. Only time will tell if those few dazzling tracks on Sir are an isolated accident or a foretaste of greater things to come.
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UncutFeb 16, 2018There is a candid, personal quality to "Discreet" and "Have Fun Tonight," a sincere hymn to queer polyamory. Meanwhile, Chairlift's Caroline Polachek joins for the elegantly torrid "Togetherness." [Apr 2018, p.26]
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Feb 16, 2018Sir updates Fischerspooner’s old cocaine throb to surprisingly modern, still sleazily enjoyable, then inevitably exhausting results. It’s enough to think it might stick around this time.
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Feb 16, 2018While the nine-year break has seen the duo barely switch up their instrumentation--Warren Fischer is still blasting drum machines and moody synth underneath Spooner’s vocals--the band’s friend and new producer, R.E.M.‘s Michael Stipe, seems to have generally smoothed the scruffier side of the duo’s compositions.
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Feb 16, 2018Sir is as extroverted as Spooner’s recent experiences, but some occasional, additional restraint may have added extra punch to its more introverted moments.
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Feb 20, 2018The spirit was willing, but the editorial hand, which could have redeemed the project by jettisoning the filler, was weak.
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Feb 20, 2018Sir occasionally works as an aggregate of flattering bric-a-brac and is irrepressibly sexy, but when its production’s skin-deep charm peels away there’s little to compel a return.
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Feb 20, 2018Sadly, the album doesn’t sound half as much fun as the journey.