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Ricky Music

Porches

Ricky Music

Fourth album from the New York-based synth-pop singer-songwriter Aaron Maine

ADM rating[?]

6.3

Label
Domino
UK Release date
13/03/2020
US Release date
13/03/2020
  1. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    It’s not always an easy listen, but it’s certainly a very relatable one.
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  2. 7.5 |   Paste Magazine

    With its genre-agnostic, all-the-influences approach, Ricky Music is somehow Porches’ most cohesive album so far
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  3. 7.0 |   All Music

    Ricky Music's high-contrast, theatrical style plays out like a mini (24-minute) chamber-synth song cycle about infatuation, sex, and heartbreak - with just enough balance between candidness and self-awareness to keep us rooting for the lea
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  4. 7.0 |   Exclaim

    Shows a different side to Porches as an artist that we haven't seen before; it may be more produced and heavily Auto-Tuned, which takes away from his strong vocals, but it's refreshing to hear a new side to Porches
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  5. 6.3 |   Pitchfork

    On his latest record, Aaron Maine explores the feelings of confusion and numbness that follow the end of a relationship. It’s an ambitious record that can get a little lost in itself
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  6. 6.0 |   Under The Radar

    The high points of the album offer a voyeuristic look into Maine’s mind, coupled with dreamy synth pop
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  7. 6.0 |   DIY

    Porches becomes a little stuck on lovelorn fourth LP
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  8. 6.0 |   Q

    At times the meandering is frustrating, while at others the release when a song finally locks into its groove, as on the twisting Lipstick Song, makes the experimentation all worthwhile. Print edition only

  9. 5.0 |   Clash

    A hazy acid dream that for all its vivid colour has little of note to say
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