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10.0
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10.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
This album is so pure, so deeply felt that cynicism and pre-prepared anti-hype will just slide off it like a light breeze
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9.0
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9.0 |
Exclaim
A profoundly beautiful, meaningful album from a band that has decided that every record might as well be a new magnum opus
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9.0
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9.0 |
Gigwise
With gorgeous writing, an emotional resonance, as well as magnificent, diverse compositions throughout, you can’t help but get completely swept away
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9.0
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9.0 |
All Music
There's a frankness to Le'aupepe's lyrics, as if he's talking directly to you. Yet, even in his most earnest, off-hand moments, he finds poetry
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8.5
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8.5 |
Under The Radar
Unfolding like a rock opera as it traverses the length and breadth of one man’s entire life from the Polynesian Isles to the Tasman Sea and back, angel in realtime is a bold and epic expression of identity, loss, and our need to believe in something greater than ourselves
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8.0
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8.0 |
Dork
A truly great record that doesn’t hold back on its emotions or its storytelling
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8.0
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8.0 |
PopMatters
Sydney’s Gang of Youths make music that feels massive and Angel in Realtime is immaculately produced and loaded with the group’s natural energy
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7.8
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7.8 |
Beats Per Minute
It stands as a testament to angel in realtime.‘s core message – that life is rarely easy, and often painful, but ultimately always worthwhile
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7.0
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7.0 |
No Ripcord
Even if the album enjoys its fair share of memorable moments, it also suffers musically from the belief that bold is better and more is more
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7.0
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7.0 |
DIY
Heartfelt songs based in place and time, with a few fist-to-the-chest moments
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6.8
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6.8 |
Pitchfork
Led by the charismatic Dave Le’aupepe, the stadium rock quintet’s wildly ambitious third album is intimate in its details but rarely anything other than IMAX-sized in its proportions
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4.0
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4.0 |
Mojo
The record's well-meaning earnestness is a little overwhelming, but it's the stuffed-crust arrangements that really grate, everything happening at once, and often for too long. Print edition only
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