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Jan 31, 2014Each spin offers a chance for escape, but what endows Berglund’s sophomore effort with the glow of a masterpiece is its accessibility.
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Feb 3, 2014Similar to the likes of Animal Collective, it weeds out the ordinary pop listener to reward the fan devoted to deciphering its layers.
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Q MagazineMar 18, 2014Like a violent assault by a Moshi Monster, it's fluffy, frightening and utterly overwhelming. [Apr 2014, p.105]
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Feb 12, 2014There’s something about CEO’s second album that’s so wide-eyed, so full of wonder that even when it approaches absolute sugar overload it’s impossible to dislike.
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Feb 5, 2014In rightly avoiding the sweeping, anthemic electro jams of compatriots like Robyn and Niki and the Dove, Berglund offers an unpretentious and hypnotic listening experience, the kind of album that allows its audience to be a member of a nameless, nebulous crowd immersing itself in pure street spectacle.
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Feb 4, 2014With ceo he's perfecting it and this is his best work yet. Whether you're shopping, working, falling in love, or drifting along aimlessly, it's a perfect soundtrack for a warm daydream full of light and wonder.
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Feb 3, 2014With no shortage of hooks and crescendos, Wonderland continues to revel in the spirit of TTA, demonstrating more greatness by this industry anomaly.
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Jan 31, 2014Wonderland‘s a cracking slab of chewy pop-toffee. It’s sugary, and superficially slathered with rainbow glitter, but it takes more than a few seconds to comprehend and devour the music.
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Jan 31, 2014Altogether, it’s some irresistible glitter-on-the dancefloor delirium.
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Feb 3, 2014There’s an abundance of ideas packed into these pop songs, and Berglund’s ear for melodies and harmonies, as well as piecemeal-sampled grunts, yelps, and hollers make for an exotically infectious whole.
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Jan 31, 2014Like the debut, this album is only eight songs, but floaty interludes like "In a Bubble on a Stream" or "Juju" allow attention to drift more freely, closer to TTA's super-limited 2006 ambient excursion Escaping Your Ambitions.
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Feb 19, 2014While Berglund still seems intent on taking a sideways swipe at pop culture, his sophomore album Wonderland is full of elegant contradictions, bridging the gap between bratty and Balearic.
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Feb 7, 2014It’s very ambitious but also very flawed, but moreover it’s great to hear him take all these risks.
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Feb 5, 2014His taste for sonic jumble can be overwhelming.
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UncutFeb 3, 2014There remains a belligerent subtext to his nostalgic fantasias. [Mar 2014, p.73]
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Feb 3, 2014Wonderland isn’t a very good album, but it more than succeeds at being a mess. Is this meant to be a Marxist critique of capitalism, or is it a maximalist celebration of the same? I’d argue that it’s both, but much like Berglund, I have too strong a sense of the fact that I do not understand what it all means.
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Jan 31, 2014It fits within its own logic, but no others, resulting in a succinct record that should be anything but.
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Jan 31, 2014The world of CEO remains an intriguing, if frustrating, place.
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Mixed: 5 out of 13
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Apr 23, 2014