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9.1
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A.V. Club
Gossamer is also more elegant than its predecessor. Toning down Manners’ strained falsetto, Angelakos sings with clarity and confidence, exploring his warmer lower range
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8.4
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Paste Magazine
The album is a tour of Angelakos’ internal life in the same way that Bon Iver, is a tour of Justin Vernon’s
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8.4
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8.4 |
Pitchfork
On Gossamer, Passion Pit recast themselves as polyglots and pacesetters, tackling the currency of pop music head-on as a competitor rather than admiring it with a few well-placed press quotes
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8.1
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Beats Per Minute
Gossamer is a step up in sophistication and songcraft, and one of the year’s stronger pop albums
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8.0
44301
8.0 |
The Guardian
The squeals and buzzes and warped samples are manipulated into buoyant songs that float like, well, gossamer
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8.0
44214
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The getters of Gossamer may well be soppy, fragile spanielfolk, but when the strings glide in on ‘Where We Belong’ they’re going to get it so completely that you should envy them every stream-eyed, sore-hearted second
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
A second album of frantically fantastical synthetica, permanently on emotional high alert, like a hormonal version of Sonic The Hedgehog
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8.0
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8.0 |
Uncut
One of the few bands with stadium heft and the tunes to pull it off. Print edition only
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8.0
44230
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A record which finally resonates as meaningful personal statement, whilst retaining their hallmark overactive pop-playgroud sound
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8.0
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8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It’s pop music in its purest form, totally unhindered and perhaps a bit outrageous, devoid of any self-conscious irony, just simply: listen to my story, and sing along
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8.0
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8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Gossamer is hard to fault, besides the fact that it's more of the same. But if it ain't broke…
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8.0
44355
8.0 |
Prefix
They’re less brash, less visceral than the pulse of Manners’ best, but they’re also more honest – sometimes brutally so
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8.0
44493
8.0 |
The Scotsman
This is bubblegum which doesn’t lose its flavour
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8.0
44525
8.0 |
musicOMH
A modern pop record to be cherished
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
Though the environment that birthed the appropriately titled Gossamer may be a bummer, the end product is winningly majestic as it is obviously spun by the most malevolent of spiders
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8.0
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8.0 |
No Ripcord
This album isn’t just about the radiant sun-sized synths or candy-coated beats. Angelakos has made it about him, and far from being just another vanity project or a place to air generic emotional baggage, this album represents what all artists strive for—a complete and intensive examination of themselves through music
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8.0
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8.0 |
Tone Deaf
Full of tortured summer anthems, the band have made a great modern pop album
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Their second disc is roomier and more varied
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7.0
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7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
It’s an emotional 48-minute tell-all, over 12 tracks that pummel listeners through a burnished house of mirrors. It’s enigmatic, heartbreaking, and severe
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7.0
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7.0 |
DIY
While this second album seems genuine, and at times very good, it just doesn’t excite and satisfy in quite the same way as the spontaneous creativity of the debut. ‘Gossamer’ is one giant juxtaposition that can’t quite sit comfortably
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7.0
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7.0 |
BBC
An impressive and varied second album, but one underpinned by noticeable troubles
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6.7
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6.7 |
Entertainment.ie
Great songs often come from tough places, but Angelakos needs a stronger guide to help push Passion Pit to be as good as its potential. This isn’t exactly a sophomore slump, but it is a jumbled mess
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Quietus
Their songs display the same emotive, anthemic quality as those of our own, widely beloved Coldplay, as well as the same wide-eyed naivety, but Angelakos and his companions' open-armed invitations are more likely to get a reluctant hug in return than a knee in the bollocks
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6.0
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6.0 |
Clash
Guaranteed to make you cry sugar-coated tears or vomit Care Bears depending on your tastes
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6.0
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6.0 |
PopMatters
The faithful will love it; the skeptics, not so much. All this unconverted critic can do is acknowledge both receptions, and split the difference
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5.0
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5.0 |
Spin
Before it's over, the album has you feeling oppressed and exhausted
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5.0
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5.0 |
Bowlegs
This album seems to grow like wild flowers in some decayed cultural zone post 89, but ultimately it’s sails just TOO close to Maroon 5 to keep us onside. It has a cold, cold hear
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5.0
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5.0 |
Slant Magazine
Gossamer is true to its name: colorless and precariously thin, with precious few bright spots
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4.0
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4.0 |
Q
Gossamer's a pleasant listen, but when has that been enough? Print edition only
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Fly
Grand and grizzling, ‘Gossamer’ begs for adoration, but too often leaves an uncomfortably bittersweet aftertaste
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