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Mar 24, 2015Despite his plunderphonic techniques, he’s a classic pop songwriter, and The Scene Between comes awfully close to being a classic pop album.
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Mar 24, 2015All in all, Parton and his collaborators cumulate a muscular and even touching evocation of simply being rattled by the rush--happily.
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Sep 18, 2015Ian Parton's picked up Young Guv’s gauntlet and made the power-pop album of the year.
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MagnetApr 15, 2015The Scene Between is another breathless, time-collapsing rush of dayglo, retro, lo-fi indie spunk, cutting back on the hip-hop inflections, schoolyard chants and cut-and-paste sample collage to focus squarely on melody. [No. 119, p.55]
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Mar 27, 2015The Scene Between isn't the Go! Team's best, but it is an impressive new start that consolidates most of their strengths in a bright shiny ball and sends the band shooting off in a brilliant new-ish direction.
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Mar 26, 2015A light, entertaining album.
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MojoMar 19, 2015Kaleidoscopic yet reassuringly familiar to '80s indie fans. [Apr 2015, p.98]
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Q MagazineMar 17, 2015It all works rather well. [Apr 2015, p.102]
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Apr 3, 2015You will hear better records than The Scene Between this year; none will put a bigger smile on your face.
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Mar 17, 2015Parton did exactly as he set out to do, bridging a self-recognized gap in his songwriting habits to produce a melodically dense record packed with insatiable hooks with minimal sacrifice to the band's signature sense of nostalgia-infused momentum.
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Mar 23, 2015It’s a cohesive listen that doesn't quite translate into a cohesive statement of purpose.
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Mar 24, 2015A Go! Team album that works by evoking their past yet looking optimistic towards the future.
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UncutMar 17, 2015If it all seems a little too familiar, the hooks here are undeniable. [Apr 2015, p.76]
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Mar 17, 2015Frenzied excitement still prevails.