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- Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the Berlin-based pop trio.
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- Record Label: Bella Union
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Kissing as we cross Kissing as we cross Kissing as we cross again I saw your fate tonight Your summer has no reason I ask my body no questions And... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Q MagazineSep 2, 2014Ballet School update and enhance, rather than copy or clone their '80s forebears. [Oct 2014, p.103]
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Sep 3, 2014They know their way around a captivating (if not subtle) hook, so whilst it sounds bigger than the sum of its parts, there are enough great songs to justify this super-stylised and fearless approach to pop.
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UncutSep 4, 2014It's '80s pop, but not as you know it. [Sep 2014, p.69]
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Sep 2, 2014If there's a quibble, it's an avoidable tendency to let songs drift into overtly tasteful territory, but on point, Ballet School do their heroes proud.
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Sep 11, 2014After its auspicious start, The Dew Last an Hour tries to convey similar sentiments amid agreeable, midtempo synth-pop that skimps on the pop and piles on the twinkling, harmonized guitars and vaporous melodies. What begins as a cooling blast of fresh air dissipates into pleasant ambience.
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MojoSep 2, 2014Although The Dew Lasts An Hour is a patchwork quilt of an album, it's so audaciously pulled off it's impossible not to grin and wonder why mainstream pop missed this trick 30 years ago. [Sep 2014, p.96]
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Sep 12, 2014Coming from the creative hotbed of modern-day Berlin, it seems like they could have pushed the envelope a bit more.
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