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Piano Ombre

Francois & The Atlas Mountains

Piano Ombre

More afrobeaty dancey indie pop from the band led by Brussels-based Frenchman François Marry on their second album for Domino

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Domino Records
UK Release date
17/03/2014
US Release date
25/03/2014
  1. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    Consistently fresh, inventive and beguiling, showing a band surely at the summit of their powers.
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  2. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    It’s so tightly-packed with such consistently good content and is so musically pithy, that you just can’t ever really get enough out of it
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  3. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Their lifeblood is cute, knowing pop
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  4. 8.0 |   The List

    Executed with quietly persuasive style. That’s true of the whole album. I don’t know what it means, but I like it
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  5. 8.0 |   The 405

    Piano Ombre proves that by being romantic, intimate and even forward-looking in the way the album positively addresses difficult times. Onwards and upwards, Fránçois
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  6. 8.0 |   DIY

    This is his best album yet – a kaleidoscope of charming sounds
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  7. 8.0 |   All Music

    If E Volo Love was his breakout, Piano Ombre should be the record that will truly resonate with fans
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  8. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    One of the most listenable albums of 2014 thus far
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  9. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Dignified, confident and packed full of elevating song structures, Piano Ombre is an album many will find euphorically addictive
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  10. 6.0 |   Crack

    An album that does little to skew alt-pop traditions, yet through basic talent the band produce something enjoyable and lasting – just
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  11. 5.0 |   The Music

    Marry’s thin voice rarely strays into strong expression making it difficult to connect to the French tracks
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