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8.0
9
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Black’s sweet melodiousness effectively counterbalances his artier tendencies and philosophical bent. Smart, addictive future pop
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8.0
11
8.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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7.0
7
7.0 |
The Observer
Vocally, his tendency to whine grates. When he cuts loose, however, he can thrill
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6.0
10
6.0 |
The Guardian
Like a modern-day Beck, Black is a brilliant genre-mixer, fusing hip-hop beats and synthesiser washes with a musical palette that stretches from Radiohead to Coldcu
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6.0
3
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Black’s got the image, the ideas and a good sense of what works well, as heard on the deft hip-hop beat of Yours, or the natty synth flashes of U+Me=. Deux
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6.0
4
6.0 |
musicOMH
The album is saved by a handful of stellar tracks, from the elastic, pulsating baseline of the brilliant Yours, to the urgent rush of previous single Alone… It's these flashes, however, that highlight the shortcomings of some of the other tracks
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6.0
5
6.0 |
The Scotsman
An efficient electropop debut with plentiful commercial potential, which lands closer to Sam Sparro's funkiness (minus the soulful vocals)
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6.0
6
6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
You can forgive him titles such as U + Me >, despite wanting to hurl at the transient trendiness, because it packs an electro heavyweight punch
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6.0
12
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
9121
6.0 |
Spin
...the album works best when Black's mood swings between Technicolor dreams and depressing quotidian details
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5.0
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5.0 |
FasterLouder
There’s no space to breath in this album, and for something so choc-full of sounds it’s too hollow
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5.0
8
5.0 |
NME
After a few listens, just when these songs should be beginning to grip, you get the creeping sensation Black’s slick production chops are essentially papering over flimsy songs
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4.0
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4.0 |
Rave Magazine
There’s little coherence or focus beneath the gloss
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