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8.0
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8.0 |
Clash
It’s as if the vogueing NYC collective have concisely brought themselves up to speed
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Guardian
More than enough subtlety here to mean it isn't just a collection of club cuts
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8.0
66005
8.0 |
musicOMH
This will be the soundtrack to many a party over the summer months
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8.0
66023
8.0 |
All Music
The edges and moods are much sharper than those of Blue Songs. There are fewer subtleties
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Music
Despite the tyranny of effervescent beats Hercules inserts more darkly hewn pop songs that deal in themes of redemption and salvation
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8.0
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8.0 |
Spin
It's Denver-born, Reykjavík-based singer-songwriter John Grant who here shines brightest
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7.6
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7.6 |
Pitchfork
Hercules & Love Affair tap into an essential part of house music’s history that’s far more profound than just the music
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7.5
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A.V. Club
The house and techno elements are immediate and occasionally aggressive, but there’s great warmth and intimacy here as well
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7.5
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7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A complete, resolute collection of high-grade dance music
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7.1
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7.1 |
Earbuddy
Really, the album is ripe with emotion, despite an inherent purpose of making its listeners dance
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7.0
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7.0 |
Slant Magazine
He's a curator par excellence who's once again assembled an aggressive and varied collection of voices who together form an earnest plea to choose compassion over division
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7.0
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7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
As a daytime collection of songs this album has its faults, but as long as it's consumed after hours, preferably in a club, it excels with a persona charged with swirls of unbound desire and dance friendly dazzle
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7.0
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NME
As ever with H&LA, guest vocalists are crucial, Krystle Warren taking no shit on ‘My Offence’ and John Grant crooning up a storm on the icy, nocturnal ‘Liberty’
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6.0
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The Irish Times
The glimpses of innovation, as heard on closer The Key, just about make up for the overall humdrum feeling – this time
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6.0
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The FT
Yet for all the impressive textures, an animating spark is missing: there isn’t the same investment in the period as on the first album
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6.0
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6.0 |
Fact
There’s very little sense of a uniting personality, and you’re left wondering how genuinely great an album H&LA might make
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
A career-saving step forward
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5.0
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Under The Radar
It plays like an attempt to reach the heights of Disclosure's smash Settle but with less time spent on the actual songs
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4.0
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4.0 |
The List
For an album that purports to be all about getting up in your grill, the rump of this record sounds unexpectedly like trendy background music
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