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9.0
9958
9.0 |
The Quietus
An early contender for Quietus album of the year? It wouldn't be too optimistic to think so
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9.0
12460
9.0 |
No Ripcord
It’s The Black Kids with their ambient, wandering attitude honed down to a laser-like focus. It’s CSS, it’s Paramore, it’s Miss Kittin, it’s bits of them all with a thousand times more attack
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8.0
9866
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
The Optimist is taut and dark, like The XX learning to dance, with basslines that seize your spine and hooks that snag your brai
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8.0
9876
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
All in all, it’s a cracking comeback
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8.0
10927
8.0 |
State
Self-produced, self-funded and self-released, The Optimist is much darker than their previous effort and the feeling is anything but upbeat
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8.0
9982
8.0 |
NME
It is difficult to imagine a better pop album coming out this year
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8.0
10186
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
An album that invites you to listen from beginning to end, and get lost in the haze – it’s less flashy than their first, for sure, but no less rewarding
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7.0
9680
7.0 |
Clash
Let’s get straight to business: NYPC have grown up
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7.0
9880
7.0 |
musicOMH
With nods to Siouxsie Sioux on the excellent title track and to Toni Halliday on Before The Light, it's all gone post-punk goth with a pop ethic
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6.0
9724
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
9773
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Despite forays into a wider world, and the dreamy, vulnerable and hypnotic subtlety of 'Stone', you can't help but think that NYPC have still got one foot firmly anchored in the glowstick glimmer of past glories
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6.0
9823
6.0 |
The Guardian
The 45 minutes of broody disco contained herein is never unlikable. But there's too much that sounds like what a New Young Pony Club album track ought to sound like
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5.5
10464
5.5 |
Pitchfork
Too often gets lost in non-committal melodies as Bulmer tries and tries again to capture quote-worthy elegant wastefulnes
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5.0
10254
5.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Recommended only to seriously die-hard NWPC fans, and even then you’ll probably want to spotify it first. Put this nag down
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4.0
9729
4.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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4.0
12357
4.0 |
PopMatters
The band is too caught up in being serious to even realize that there’s not a whole going on beneath the surface
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