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7.5
18367
7.5 |
The Quietus
In displaying the guts to drag chillwave out of its lo-fi comfort zone, Small Black really set themselves apart from the pack; far enough at least to suggest the genre may have room to grow after all
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7.2
18107
7.2 |
Pitchfork
Feels like a sunrise bike ride with a head full of weed, but this time in full-blown technicolor
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7.0
18141
7.0 |
PopMatters
They’d do well to explore their own record collections again and not get caught up listening too intently to the music of their tourmates
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7.0
17963
7.0 |
BBC
These songs could be the dream sequences to 80s films which were never made
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7.0
18031
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A 35-minute celebration of the spirituality of sound, bursting with life and soul, as thrilling as it is giddying
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7.0
18079
7.0 |
Bowlegs
There is an occasional darkness lurking behind this music but that should not deter the listener from what is an imaginative album
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6.5
19538
6.5 |
Prefix
Listening to New Chain, there's no reason now to think that Small Black can't put that fine touch to making an album with a tight balance between their drowsier sensibilities and their hookier, head-nodding ones
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6.0
18213
6.0 |
Q
The perfect party album for wistful romantics. Print edition only
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6.0
18091
6.0 |
Uncut
A gooey, if faintly sickly, treat. Print edition only
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6.0
18094
6.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
They are making pretty, tightly structured pop songs cheaply, or at least pop songs that sound cheaply made, and pretty, and melancholy, and somehow detached and futuristic
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6.0
17961
6.0 |
musicOMH
New Chain is unmistakably chillwave, undeniably fashionable within the American music scene right now, but doesn't half make you yearn for a bit of sunshine
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6.0
17962
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
As a sonic carpet to roll out underneath those long and cold autumn evenings, it will work a treat
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6.0
18043
6.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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6.0
18068
6.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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