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8.0
66209
8.0 |
musicOMH
New Eyes is a fantastically fun record. It’s laser-guided music, with sights trained on parties across the globe: the beats are powerful, the earworms infectious
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8.0
66211
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
It would seem that we’re now ready for summer to begin. We’re got the soundtrack and all we need is for temperature to rise and the sun to make an appearance
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8.0
66212
8.0 |
Time Out
It all adds up to a thoroughly enjoyable listen
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8.0
66330
8.0 |
Digital Spy
Clean Bandit aren't traditional popstars, nor are they trying to be, but they've delivered a shimmering debut that follows the cardinal rules of pop: great melodies, simple messages and plenty of hooks
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6.5
66335
6.5 |
The 405
Half the songs sound like outtakes from the release New Eyes could have been, and the other half are some of the best pop songs of the year
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6.0
66219
6.0 |
The FT
Cross dance music with Mozart and you get an improbably catchy act of musical fusion
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6.0
66250
6.0 |
The Observer
At its best, New Eyes is proof that you can get away with pretty much anything as long as you're clever about it. Even in its more ordinary moments, it's still a classical gas
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6.0
66697
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Clean Bandit’s template may well be in need of new strings
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6.0
66208
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Calmer moments fit the conservatoire feel more comfortably
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4.0
66960
4.0 |
State
Both positive and negative elements are scattered throughout this album, good ideas are in there but are let down by their execution and the bad ideas, like most bad ideas, are left there because Clean Bandit probably just know no better
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4.0
66448
4.0 |
DIY
Their early promise sits almost intermittently alongside some of these tediously conventional new offerings
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4.0
66210
4.0 |
The Guardian
They think they can save dance music but have no hooks, songs or lyrics – just dodgy string arrangements
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3.0
66213
3.0 |
Clash
If the album had a concept (which it doesn’t) it would probably be “round the houses”, as each track tries its damnedest to latch onto any dance genre of the last decade
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2.0
66582
2.0 |
The Quietus
After 'Mozart's House', the album descends into a melange of fairly indistinguishable tedium. It's naff. In fact, it's very naff. It's a panoply of naffness. Naff house, naff two-step, naff electro... naff-step
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