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  • Summary: The third full-length release for the Los Angeles-based artist features guest appearances from Genevieve Artadi, Dennis Hamm, Brad Mehldau, and Thundercat.
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
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  1. Aug 16, 2018
    80
    His most refined batch of animated pop yet. He triangulates somewhere between Ben Folds and Charlie Puth, albeit with eccentricity to spare and a better feel for the funk than either musician.
  2. Aug 17, 2018
    80
    These 14 tracks merge synthetic funk, hip-hop, indie soul and a love of life. Songs including “Weird Part of the Night,” “Freaky Times” and “After the Load is Blown” possess chops and wit.
  3. Aug 16, 2018
    80
    If you need a good dose of enthusiastic summer sunshine then Louis Cole has crafted a superb hideaway.
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    Aug 16, 2018
    80
    Exhausting but rewarding. [Oct 2018, p.26]
  5. Aug 16, 2018
    76
    An unusual mixture of hard funk and soft pop, like Zapp and Burt Bacharach stuck in an elevator together, Cole's is a sly, jubilant sound; it makes good use of the way funk also thrives upon a sense of wrongness, a screw-faced delight at things gone awry.
  6. 60
    Time has its highs and its lows. It’s an album that doesn’t take itself too seriously. The lyrics may be tongue-in-cheek, but the craftsmanship of each song is nothing to smirk at.
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  1. Oct 12, 2020
    10
    Masterpiece album. Displays Song writing skills of the beetles on Things, displays the Comedy of Bo Burnham on After The Load is Blown,Masterpiece album. Displays Song writing skills of the beetles on Things, displays the Comedy of Bo Burnham on After The Load is Blown, Displays the funk of Prince on Weird Part of the night and displays the musicianship of Herbie Hancock on Tunnels in the Air. Truly a Jack of all Trades. Expand