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| 3.8 excellent | manosg EMERITUS | June 4th 17 |
You know an album is going to be special when from the very first seconds it takes you places and makes you reminisce on various memories. Amelia Murray's dreamy vocals and fairly simplistic yet very effective instrumentation make up for a highly evocative listen which may arouse positive feelings but are a product of frustration and anxiety once you read her lyrics. Overall, Morningside is an emotional and rather cathartic trip.
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| 3.5 great | RadicalEd | June 16th 17 |
Jennifer is the shit. Album is a bit hampered by the fact that every other song is just a lesser (yet still very cool) version of Jennifer tho.
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| 3.5 great | Barksdale | March 20th 23 |
Best Tracks: Last To Sleep, Lucky Girl, Little Uneasy, Jennifer, Take It Slow, Shoulders.
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| 3.7 great | Erwann S. STAFF | February 13th 20 |
Man why isn't the summer there yet? Can't decently jam these happy tunes in February. Typically the kind of breezy pop to jam with your cool friends on a sunny and lazy day with beers and weed. However, I have the same problem with this album as with Alvvays: there are some parts that do sound samey, mainly the more laid back tunes (eg Shoulder) but the record is short enough for it not to be a major issue. And the parts that stand out truly shine (Lucky Girl, Friends). Female-fronted dream pop was a great 2010s subgenre innit?
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| 4.0 excellent | Bedex | January 6th 20 |
Deceptively simple yet powerfully atmospheric summer bubbles dream pop. All-round a flawless record that keeps its track intelligently short to not bore, since the instrumentation is often quite bare bones. 7 is maybe the track that works the least due to its more melancholic tone, the rest is all nice. 1 is a super fun track that's quite representative of the album as a whole, but the synth turn at the end isn't the best. 2 is maybe naive in places but is super catchy and made me tap mah foot, therefore it's a jam. 4 screams summer and is perhaps the strongest jam here. 5 is more laid back, less upbeat and catchy, but splendid and yet another jam. 8 is awesome becomes it brings welcome variety with a much more aggressive rock chorus that is very well integrated with the rest, and the track makes up for the point lost by 7. Another jam I guess, before 10 which is perhaps the most interesting track here, I kinda wish it evolved into something a bit more upbeat but it is still super cool and the final jam on this little gem of a record. 4.0
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| 2.5 average | TheManMachine | August 23rd 17 |
Pulls off pleasant summery pop in a simplistic yet finespun fashion, delicate dream-states and and bedroom grunge and the dance-worthy fulfilled, conspicuously single-ready "Lucky Girl" early on but assuredly advances from there. But as a one-gal full band it's just so comprehensively cautious; elementary and calculable constructions lazing into the lackluster. Think bleached Bleached.
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| 3.5 great | gryndstone | May 17th 17 |
This'll be a go-to album this summer. Female vocals with a healthy amount of reverb - a nice, airy shoegazey experience
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| 4.0 excellent | dayks11 | February 7th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Santet | December 23rd 21 |
| 3.5 great | tom79 | January 5th 21 |
| 3.5 great | Murat | July 27th 20 |
| 3.5 great | bharry | April 16th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | Faraudo | January 14th 20 |
| 3.5 great | Pherin | July 20th 19 |
| 3.5 great | Denis | May 6th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Lucman | November 4th 18 |
| 3.5 great | Mojito | April 17th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Gadalia | December 25th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | A.R.O. STAFF | December 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | jimbo | October 21st 17 |
| 2.5 average | Rail | August 30th 17 |
| 3.0 good | bmelt CONTRIBUTOR | August 24th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | elvis7 | May 31st 17 |
| 4.7 superb | jesper STAFF | May 28th 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Reeet | May 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rudy K. EMERITUS | May 12th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | budgie | May 10th 17 |
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