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8.0
56937
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
Combining a driving beat with melancholy vocals may not exactly be anything new in pop music, but the juxtaposition of the two here elicits an entrancing state more conducive to impassioned swaying than outright dancing
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8.0
57127
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Moody music can often be as pretentious as those people who pretend to read Gravity’s Rainbow in train stations, but Lenses never feels anything other than genuine
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7.5
57122
7.5 |
Bowlegs
It is the merging of intimacy and expansiveness that makes Soft Metals’ sophomore standout from the oceans of bedroom synthpop that flood the blogosphere
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7.5
57978
7.5 |
The Quietus
This is body music, sure, but not for crowds of people eager to move - this is music to spend the night in to
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7.4
56809
7.4 |
Paste Magazine
One of the better electronic albums of the year
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7.0
56810
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
There’s no doubt that Soft Metals know their genre well, and through all the creepiness, there’s a kind of joy in hearing two young musicians in their element
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7.0
56811
7.0 |
All Music
As a whole the album brings Soft Metals' music into focus, revealing them as a tighter, more versatile group in the process
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7.0
57544
7.0 |
Fact
It’s hard to begrudge adventurousness, especially when the end product is this pleasing
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7.0
57259
7.0 |
musicOMH
Lenses is a masterly album and Soft Metals’ brand of inventive, ghostly electro is a welcome break from the flood of brainless EDM that’s cluttering up airwaves and dancefloors everywhere at the moment
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6.0
57320
6.0 |
Pitchfork
Lenses comes off like a proggy, synth pop album that wants to get treated like sound sculpture, but Soft Metals don't fully commit to either endeavor in spite of the record's handful of successes
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6.0
57169
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Although well conceived and frequently seductive, Lenses is – like Hall’s vocals – often too diffuse and plays as though born in a lab
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6.0
57214
6.0 |
Uncut
It's often a little aimless. Print edition only
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6.0
57245
6.0 |
DIY
'Lenses', despite its four-to-the-floor tendencies and impeccable imagery, falls flat
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4.0
57120
4.0 |
The Irish Times
Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall’s second album isn’t as evocative as they think it is, and all too often their minimalist synthpop soundtrack drifts into tediousness alongside Hall’s clichéd “ice maiden” vocals
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3.5
56807
3.5 |
Under The Radar
If the musicians sound bored, how should we feel?
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