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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the Berlin-based pop trio.
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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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  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Q Magazine
    Sep 2, 2014
    80
    Ballet School update and enhance, rather than copy or clone their '80s forebears. [Oct 2014, p.103]
  2. Sep 3, 2014
    80
    They 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.
  3. Uncut
    Sep 4, 2014
    80
    It's '80s pop, but not as you know it. [Sep 2014, p.69]
  4. If 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.
  5. Sep 11, 2014
    62
    After 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.
  6. Mojo
    Sep 2, 2014
    60
    Although 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]
  7. Sep 12, 2014
    60
    Coming from the creative hotbed of modern-day Berlin, it seems like they could have pushed the envelope a bit more.

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