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Sets & Lights

Xeno and Oaklander

Sets & Lights

Third album from NY coldwave / electro duo Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride, recorded studio-live with analogue synthesizers and instruments

ADM rating[?]

6.5

Label
Weird
UK Release date
17/10/2011
US Release date
11/10/2011
  1. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    For a retro sound and considering the album harks from a scene suffering from a serious case of much-of-a-muchness between bands, Sets and Lights manages to be, if not original, then certainly fresh
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  2. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Icy washes and brittle synth clanks complement the pair's wintry vocals. Like Print edition only

  3. 7.3 |   Pitchfork

    It's their best release yet, but it it takes some time to sink in
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  4. 7.0 |   NME

    Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride have the Human League/Thomas Dolby textures down to a tee but, crucially, they haven’t skimped on the songwriting
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  5. 4.0 |   Bowlegs

    A ten track barrage of suffocating, intense, council-flat-Gary-Numan-style, 80s synth
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