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10.0
77838
10.0 |
Digital Spy
What Years & Years have achieved with Communion is a deft and exposed debut, that thrives on both its unashamed mainstream appeal and astute vulnerability
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8.0
77915
8.0 |
DIY
Years & Years bring that all important human touch to their massive pop anthems
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8.0
77682
8.0 |
Time Out
It all adds up to what is surely the summer’s first essential pop album
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8.0
77683
8.0 |
The FT
An accomplished debut, at once well-crafted and fresh-faced
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8.0
77698
8.0 |
Q
Intelligent, ecstatic debut from electro-dance contenders. Print edition only
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7.5
77835
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A collection of inspired pop songs that will continue to light up 2015
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7.4
78023
7.4 |
Pitchfork
Communion’s biggest hit thus far, the high-gloss anthem "King", attains a kind of formal loveliness not witnessed in this genre since Madonna’s "Get Together" almost a decade ago
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7.0
78026
7.0 |
Spin
They’re able to turn in buoyant synth tics that give a helium boost to Alexander’s otherwise dour devotionals
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7.0
78220
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Communion is the musical equivalent of a granola bar or fruit smoothie
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7.0
78268
7.0 |
PopMatters
There may be the odd misstep, but Communion is a solid debut, and one of the better pop albums in recent memory
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7.0
77777
7.0 |
musicOMH
Communion’s minimal song titles are indicative of a no-nonsense approach to song writing – but like most good pop songs they unpeel different layers of production with repeated listening
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6.0
77742
6.0 |
The Independent
Years & Years don’t lack pop know-how – Alexander’s falsetto makes light work of “Worship” and “King” – but too often their light touch turns lightweight, even wan
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6.0
77685
6.0 |
State
It’s only when they properly loosen up do you feel the potential energy being released, and you can see the vast, distant future that Years & Years might have
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6.0
78312
6.0 |
Mojo
Next time a bit more adventure wouldn't go amiss. Print edition only
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6.0
78469
6.0 |
Gig Soup
Every song on this album is good (you don’t win the BBC Sound of… prize if you’re terrible), but my suspicion is that every song could be better, and that’s a good thing. A good debut should leave you wanting more
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5.0
77841
5.0 |
The 405
Communion may be the end result of years of refinement, but you can't help but feel it was reached on someone else's terms
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5.0
77686
5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A perfectly acceptable effort, but that’s more by default because of treading the safe path, rather than the happy accident of flirting with extremes
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5.0
77767
5.0 |
The Music
It sounds too much like everything else and not enough like itself
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4.0
77684
4.0 |
NME
A debut that takes no risks and has nothing to say
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4.0
77888
4.0 |
The Observer
It’s wall-to-wall tish, tish, tish, yearn, yearn, yearn
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2.0
77902
2.0 |
Crack
Expect an onslaught of shite remixes in the forthcoming months
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