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Nov 1, 2013It’s uplifting, motivating and unashamedly simple (which, frankly, is it’s major charm).
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Oct 11, 2013It’s unashamedly fantastic, uplifting and most of all it’s a real joy to listen to.
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Oct 8, 2013Two songs from the EP made the cut for the album (“Ready For the Weekend” and, predictably, “I Love It”) and though the latter--a Charli XCX co-written club banger--still stands out high above the rest of the album’s tracks, the songs that comprise This Is...Icona Pop are even larger and louder than their predecessors.
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Oct 1, 2013This Is… Icona Pop is a worthwhile listen because it doesn’t dumb down. It’s not trying to enlighten, either.
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Sep 27, 2013It plays like a sweet-toothed sparring session, one punch after the next of joyful high-pitched barking.
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Sep 26, 2013The first seven songs play out like a 20-minute power hour, but the album loses a bit of steam after that.
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Sep 25, 2013This Is… Icona Pop is not revolutionary, original, or inventive.... What This Is… Icona Pop, and Icona Pop as an artistic duo, possess that few others can lay claim to, is a firm grasp on the musical zeitgeist.
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Sep 24, 2013It’s a refreshingly fun album with no pretenses, just plenty of sing-along hooks and dancefloor jams.
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Sep 23, 2013This Is...Icona Pop is a consistently fun album, and it would be even without their big single.
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Sep 23, 2013While most of the concerns expressed in This Is... seem wafer-thin, the innovative production and diamond-hard songcraft suggest something else entirely. Icona Pop has few equals in the current landscape when it comes to immaculately crafted radio-dance music.
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Under The RadarSep 19, 2013This is... succeeds where most modern pop records fail: it's nurturing, exciting, and very intelligent debut. [Aug-Sep 2013, p.91]
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Sep 19, 2013This Is... Icona Pop, like Carly Rae Jepsen's "Kiss," may someday be viewed as a full-length that included one pop masterpiece, but that underscores the delectability of the treats Icona Pop has sprinkled around that triumph.
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Sep 19, 2013The pair instill joy and charm (and an occasional telltale Swedish accent) in head-hammering up-in-theclub chants about eternal weekends and heedless vitality.
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Sep 19, 2013Even when they're shouting, they do so in a particularly musical and distinctive way, and although their smash is one of five This Is… songs the duo had no hand in writing, they nevertheless suggest a consistent sense of authorship through the intensity of their shared ecstasies and frustrations.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 40 out of 49
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Mixed: 4 out of 49
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Negative: 5 out of 49
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