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8.0
113372
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It's volatile, beguiling stuff, and utterly distinctive
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8.0
113375
8.0 |
Mojo
Meditative Time (You Got Me) sets the pace: a gently rambling rumination twinkling with congas, shakers and bird-like flutes. Print edition only
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8.0
113377
8.0 |
The Music
It feels like Lower Dens had this in them all along, waiting to burst forth. It was worth the wait
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8.0
113443
8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
The Competition is this years ultimate dance floor filling protest album
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8.0
113479
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
The album questions the notion that competition is essential to human progress
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7.5
113859
7.5 |
Under The Radar
The Competition feels like a protest record. It conveys the message of living a full, unafraid life, the life that we chose, through forward-thinking electronic pop
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7.0
113489
7.0 |
Clash
It’s an impressive front six from Lower Dens, but sadly ‘The Competition’ falls a few tracks short of greatness
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7.0
113519
7.0 |
The 405
The music, like the topics and lyrics, doesn’t break any new ground, but it’s solidly rendered and hard to find moments to knock
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7.0
113449
7.0 |
No Ripcord
Hunter's biting social critique is the focal point from start to finish, revealing his more vulnerable self in the process—a bold reinvention that should follow whichever direction he chooses to take from here on out
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7.0
113387
7.0 |
All Music
It’s a different beast from their earlier iterations, but a compelling remodelling with interlocking layers of both sound and cultural critique
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7.0
113376
7.0 |
Uncut
Sees them cutting all ties to their bleak kosmische past, shaping Jana Hunter's songs into darkly gleaming and hopeful synthpop panoramas. Hunter's rich contralto is always at their centre. Print edition only
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6.7
113476
6.7 |
Pitchfork
The Baltimore synth-pop band’s latest might be their most explicitly political and theoretical work, tackling nothing less than the socio-psychological ravages of capitalism
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6.0
113373
6.0 |
Exclaim
The Competition may be Lower Dens' most accessible album, but its best moments come when the band slow down and strips back their sound
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6.0
113374
6.0 |
The Skinny
Musically, Hunter creates something that borders on what one would imagine a collaboration between Beach House and Robyn would sound like
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