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Feb 19, 2014If you want a refreshing, imaginative, heartfelt record which manages to be fun and emotional at once, So Long, See You Tomorrow provides everything you could want. Bombay Bicycle Club are the best at what they do.
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Feb 4, 2014Ultimately, So Long, See You Tomorrow is highly engaging, thoughtful, kaleidoscopic pop music for citizens of the world.
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Jan 29, 2014What could so nearly have been overbearing or desperate to be loved is, in actual fact, sincerely captivating and euphorically playful.
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May 15, 2014An entrancing, accomplished, and often uplifting record that will be heralded by the time the semi-tropics of a British summer arrive. A triumphant return.
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Feb 5, 2014Bold, experimental, and an absolute delight, Bombay Bicycle Club cycle the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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UncutFeb 3, 2014A brooding, impressive return. [Mar 2014, p.71]
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Jan 31, 2014There are times when it feels sporadic and fragmented--with so many different elements crammed in to each track--but ultimately, it is the sound of a band pushing themselves further than they’ve ever gone before.
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Jan 29, 2014It must be frustrating for Steadman and his fellow Bicycle Clubbers to be unable to shake off the mainstream's lager-stained memories of their debut, but you get the sense that So Long, See You Tomorrow is an appreciative, if somewhat firm, farewell aimed in their direction.
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Jan 29, 2014It’s a mighty lunge forwards for the four-piece.
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Feb 4, 2014Whatever the songs on So Long are actually about is up for debate despite their plainspokenness, but suffice to say, they trigger the exact joy buzzers that leave you usually infatuated, perhaps a bit hopefully lovelorn.
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Under The RadarFeb 21, 2014An unexpected album, but at the same time one that never feels anything less than a completely natural progression. [Feb/Mar 2014, p.80]
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Feb 24, 2014In and of itself, So Long, See You Tomorrow is more or less flawless BBC; their music has always been polite, erudite and winsome, and that beat does not skip here.
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Alternative PressFeb 20, 2014The sprawl of such tracks will take some listens to process, but the incentive is the band's melodic sense, undiminished from their early days, and sometimes immediately sublime. [Mar 2014, p.88]
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Feb 3, 2014After years of chopping and changing, Bombay Bicycle Club have finally found an iteration worth sticking with.
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Jan 29, 2014When the beats eventually die down the album shows its soft underbelly.
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Q MagazineFeb 14, 2014Bombay Bicycle Club might have veered all over the track, switching between the folk lane and the electronic one, elbowing indie-pop out of the way, but they still aren't setting the pace. [Mar 2014, p.112]
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Feb 7, 2014Bombay Bicycle Club seems to be content with genre hoping on each of their releases, and perhaps it won’t make for any one great album, but it makes for an entertaining discography.
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Feb 3, 2014They avoid compromising the qualities that carried them this far; an appealing wistfulness clings to Steadman's voice, despite the clubby builds and drops.
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Jan 30, 2014With Steadman taking production duties, the album's ambition is palpable; and yet that ambition feels undermined by his diffidence as a singer, the lack of blood and pulse in his lyrics, the marshmallow softness of his voice.
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Feb 10, 2014Despite its outward bustle and injections of colour throughout, the album’s personality is also disappointingly tentative and placid.
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Feb 4, 2014Elements of their previous work (see Flaws and A Different Kind of Fix) flow very well with their new release, So Long, See You Tomorrow, but a repressed, uninspired, deceptive sensation tingles throughout.
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MojoFeb 11, 2014The quartet's attempt ti create something like The Chemical Brothers' patchwork futurism, it is influenced by frontman Jack Steadman's global travels, but ends up sounding like a bunch of Gap Yah students discovering foreign climes fir the first time and leaning too hard on the console's Arcade Fire 2007 button. [Mar 2014, p.90]
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Feb 3, 2014So Long’s strenuously busy patchwork leaves you wondering how something so superficially impressive ends up making so little impact. The answer lies in the way the Bicycle Clubbers rarely deliver these gap-year reports with decisive force enough to thrill, or dwell on an idea for long enough to fulfill its promise.
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Jan 31, 2014It sounds as if it’s designed to slip down as smoothly as possible, but accordingly, each song slips too readily from the memory.
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Positive: 36 out of 46
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Mixed: 10 out of 46
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Negative: 0 out of 46
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