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Halsey
Manic
Halsey’s intentions are always loud and clear, but too often the music doesn’t live up to them
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Hotspot
Lowe and Tennant have always been romantics, ironic or otherwise. Hotspot retreats further into the domain of dreams – the worlds mutually created and sustained by couples both straight and gay – and in so doing backs away from the harsh reality Tenant and Lowe share with their countrymen
The Quietus
Nicolas Godin
Concrete And Glass
Concrete And Glass is a fine piece of architecture, typically classy and emotive while providing some very necessary warmth and light for the January darkness
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Nicolas Godin
Concrete And Glass
A carousel of guest vocalists keep things mostly floating in pop music bubbles, until the album shifts to an industrialised timbre
The Music
Nicolas Godin
Concrete And Glass
Concrete and Glass might be all black-rimmed spectacles and immaculate blueprints, but, amongst its clean lines and crisp arrangements, it just about retains enough of slow-burning warmth to be as instantly recognisable as Godin, even if it isn’t his grandest design
Loud And Quiet
Nicolas Godin
Concrete And Glass
Though the closest Godin comes to the excitement of Contrepoint is the jazzy, suite-like finale "Cité Radieuse," Concrete and Glass is still a fine example of his distinctively smooth style
All Music
Nicolas Godin
Concrete And Glass
The former Air member’s second solo album is a paean to various architects the veers between elegant and insipid
The Guardian
Nicolas Godin
Concrete And Glass
More recognisably Air-like despite half its tracks being merely serviceable collaborations. Print edition only
Mojo
Nicolas Godin
Concrete And Glass
Soft keyboard lines wow and flutter tastefully. Print edition only
Uncut
Nicolas Godin
Concrete And Glass
The result is as dreamy and captivating as anything Nicolas Godin has ever done. Print edition only
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Nicolas Godin
Concrete And Glass
The French musician’s solo album is full of blissed-out vocoder ballads that would have slotted effortlessly onto his duo Air’s Moon Safari
Pitchfork
Wolf Parade
Thin Mind
Wolf Parade’s latest album plays like the big leap the band could have attempted last decade—without ever quite recapturing the odd, jittery intensity that made them so beguiling
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