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10.0
105971
10.0 |
NME
Syd Tha Kid and her R&B cohorts put their heads together to create a towering achievement that combines Motown melodies with pop heartbreak
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9.0
105966
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A moreish stew of hazy, swooning R&B that’s practically impossible to resist
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8.6
105985
8.6 |
Paste Magazine
Sprinkled with codas and half-songs, the effect is natural, not jarring, like turning down an alley, or rounding a city street and stumbling into another story
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8.5
106049
8.5 |
The Quietus
The kind of album that makes you wiggle in your seat without even realizing, step-tapping on the dance floor in your head. It’s playful and colorful and has a captivating intensity
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8.3
106074
8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
An album that dips into club culture as deftly as it relaxes into burnt sugar
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8.3
106025
8.3 |
Pitchfork
A peak example of their combined powers. It simplifies their sound with soft-focus blues, plush arrangements, and deep-in-the-ground grooves
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8.0
106042
8.0 |
NOW
The Internet have delivered their most fully realized project to date
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8.0
106119
8.0 |
DIY
Delivers as many hits as The Internet’s breakout third record ‘Ego Death’, and serves up some serious ‘70s funk and soul flavours in the process
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8.0
105984
8.0 |
Evening Standard
It’s a pristine production that perhaps runs a little low on ideas. But even when they drift into potentially soporific neo-soul The Internet’s seductive songs are hard to shake off
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8.0
105989
8.0 |
The Observer
No longer just a hip-hop band’s spin-off, the Internet’s seductive neo-soul is perfectly in tune with the mainstream on their accomplished fourth album
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8.0
106014
8.0 |
Exclaim
Free of filler and definitely worth repeating, Hive Mind is the Internet we know and love, but tighter and more refined
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8.0
105974
8.0 |
The Independent
It’s undoubtedly one of their best works: the band have a synergy that draws the listener in, allowing you to revel in their irresistible confidence, and hope they might invite you to join the party
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8.0
105976
8.0 |
Q
Though for all the slick instrumental interplay, with guitarist Steve Lacy again outstanding, it's Syd's hushed, Aaliyah-like delivery that supplies the core emotional connection. Print edition only
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8.0
105955
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Hive Mind follows the laid-back R&B leanings of 2013’s Feel Good and Ego Death but is increasingly exploratory, gentle and sentimental
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8.0
105956
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
The Internet’s most musically diverse and synergetic album to date
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8.0
105957
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Unapologetically ambitious both musically and commercially, resulting in a collection of songs that are leaner, sleeker and more direct than ever
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8.0
105958
8.0 |
The Music
Has a contemporary, lived-in sound that lends a rare intimacy to a traditionally more electronic, produced style of soul
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8.0
105959
8.0 |
The Skinny
Squelching guitars and kinetic basslines are in ample supply and, like with Ego Death, romance is the album’s lifeblood
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8.0
105960
8.0 |
Crack
A brilliant, electric album to keep you dancing through the summer
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7.5
105987
7.5 |
A.V. Club
A step forward for this young, talented crew, housing nothing but scintillating performances from Syd and, in the rare moments when the group cuts loose, some seriously intoxicating funk
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7.0
106004
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Hive Mind, the group’s 4th LP, is its most polished, full of tranquil, yearning Quiet Storm and light-footed, live-band funk
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7.0
105981
7.0 |
All Music
They not only leave space for one another's ideas and playing, but also involve collaborators -- Nick Green again on some co-writing, Moonchild on serene horns -- without overstuffing the songs, operating as one organism
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7.0
106053
7.0 |
The 405
Rather than fall in love with this record from the get-go it needs a little airing and breathing time to get to grips with the finer notes, but it's sure to keep you coming back
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7.0
106046
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This record makes a good argument for The Internet’s best work being together. The group do not always connect perfectly on this album but when they do, it’s magical
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7.0
106048
7.0 |
PopMatters
The Internet's fourth album, their most focused if not their most compelling, is a distillation of everything that makes them so distinctively cool
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6.0
106073
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Hive Mind can get too comfortable for its own good
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6.0
105973
6.0 |
The Guardian
Some missed connections in R&B supergroup
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6.0
105986
6.0 |
The FT
Languid-sounding but carefully constructed psychedelic funk and R&B, with songs that have the loose feel of studio jams
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