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8.5
130961
8.5 |
Northern Transmissions
They keep coming back, with the same electricity, the same compassion, the same humanity and the same insistence that being human is a complicated but glorious thing to be
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8.0
130965
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Fourth record from Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn full of wild strangeness and romance, with full pockets of joy and weirdness
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8.0
130970
8.0 |
All Music
There's a haunted, kaleidoscopic quality to No Rule Sandy that has the feeling of listening to an old phone message from a loved one you might have forgotten, or watching grainy home movies - familiar, yet new
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8.0
130979
8.0 |
NME
With their fourth album, Nick Sanborn and Amelia Meath asked themselves: "How weird could we take it?" The answer is revealing and relatable
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8.0
130999
8.0 |
Clash
A change of pace creates glitchy magic
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8.0
131001
8.0 |
Uncut
Longer songs are punctuated by studio chatter, voicemails, birdsong and other ambient sounds, lending the whole project an artfully informal intimacy. Print edition only
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7.5
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7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
The Durham, North Carolina duo’s fourth record is packed with uninhibited experimentation and irresistible grooves that feel like a day full of care-free play
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7.0
131086
7.0 |
PopMatters
Sylvan Esso’s No Rules Sandy disavows much of electropop’s iconography, preferring to disrupt the well-trodden paths of radio-friendly bangers
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6.3
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6.3 |
Pitchfork
Recorded over a few weeks earlier this year, the electronic pop duo’s latest album takes a diffuse, improvisational approach that comes off feeling sterile
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6.0
130960
6.0 |
The Skinny
The US synth-pop duo embrace their freak selves on enjoyable fourth album
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