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9.0
5679
9.0 |
Independent on Sunday
This startling debut is the album the Flaming Lips should have made this time round
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9.0
5684
9.0 |
musicOMH
Empire Of The Sun might have thought they had the crown of the year's breeziest electro pop album sewn up, but they reckoned without this trio. For Miike Snow make weirdly wonderful music
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8.0
7058
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Both ‘Animal’ and ‘Burial’ are destined pop-synth hits, the latter capable of easily slotting into Animal Collective’s latest offering
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8.0
39249
8.0 |
The Digital Fix
All the staples of great 21st Century Swedish pop are present: catchy melodies, production that's both classic and forward-thinking, and the sense of unshackled adventure that so often produces great results
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8.0
2912
8.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Miike Snow accomplishes everything it sets out to do, creating an intelligent pop record that’s immediately fetching and stacked with hooks, yet ultimately reveals itself as the best kind of pop: the kind with layers
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7.0
2908
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
They hook up with indie boy Andrew Wyatt, manhandling his plaintive love ballads until they explode into freewheeling electro fantasias.
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7.0
2909
7.0 |
PopMatters
Though not perfect, is one of those albums you’re thrilled to discover. An intelligent, satisfying, extremely listenable pop record, it’s simultaneously nothing you expected, and most everything you hoped for
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7.0
7053
7.0 |
Click Music
A pleasantly meandering electro-pop dream, Miike Snow’s first album isn’t quite what we had expected, but that isn’t to say that it’s without merit
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6.0
5791
6.0 |
Clash
What saves it from total spuriousness is the undeniable gleam of impeccable mixing, but even that won’t endear outsiders to a sound that’s aiming straight for the mainstream
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6.0
2910
6.0 |
Uncut
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6.0
2911
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
2913
6.0 |
NME
For all the deft artistry on display here, it’s a bit bloodless.
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6.0
2914
6.0 |
Uncut
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6.0
2915
6.0 |
The Irish Times
At their best when retooling plaintive woe-is-me ballads such as Faker or Animal and tricking them out with electro swirls and disco decals
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6.0
2916
6.0 |
The List
You just want them to break out and go wild, but they never really do.
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6.0
5613
6.0 |
The Guardian
The title track's falsetto vocals and crackling synths are also naggingly infectious, and therein lies Miike Snow's strong point: the trio may be faceless, but they write a good tune
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4.0
5660
4.0 |
The Observer
Tantalising signs of a suppressed pop mojo, such as the distorted synth line that snakes through the generic soul of "Black and Blue", add to the frustration of a pedestrian debut
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4.0
6871
4.0 |
Q
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