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Mondo

Electric Guest

Mondo

This American duo specialise in pop informed by funk and soul on their debut album, produced by Danger Mouse

ADM rating[?]

6.3

Label
Because
UK Release date
14/05/2012
US Release date
22/05/2012
  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    [A] sensory cinematic masterpiece
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  2. 8.4 |   Beats Per Minute

    With an album this addictive and hopeful, I expect nation-wide success will be a breeze for these dudes
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  3. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Smooth, polished and soulful, ‘Mondo’ is an album made to be sun-kissed
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  4. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    These kids know what they’re doing, and with famous friends in tow, the rest of the world might soon know too
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  5. 6.5 |   Tone Deaf

    Danger Mouse’s touch weighs heavy on the album
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  6. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    A Beck-ian journey into L.A. slacker soul, full of hooky neon jams that ponder fame's fraught highway and the emptiness of modern life
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  7. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Mondo’s pop jingles are bound to score big with lovers of pure clean pop, and S Club 7’s ‘Reach’
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  8. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Mondo tells us that Electric Guest have yet to work out exactly what they are best at. On the evidence here, that is simple, unaffected R&B influenced pop
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  9. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    While it won’t be showing up on any year-end lists, it’ll be more than welcomed when it comes on the radio
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  10. 5.5 |   Bowlegs

    This is not bad in anyway, it just isn’t going to turn many heads
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  11. 4.6 |   Pitchfork

    You forget how most of Mondo goes even while it's playing
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  12. 4.0 |   Q

    A production that reeks of Woodbines and antique gear. Print edition only


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