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8.0
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8.0 |
Exclaim
Melodie feels like the most accomplished and intentional Slow Pulp album yet. This is what overnight success sounds like when you're more than decade in
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8.0
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8.0 |
Dork
It's angsty, but Emily Massey's vocal floats through guitars that fuzz and swell, giving 'Melodie' the easy appeal of Alvvays or Soccer Mommy
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7.5
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7.5 |
Paste Magazine
With Sleeping in the Aviary’s Elliott Kozel producing, the Chicago band’s third album uses solid shoegaze and alt-pop to explore how our greatest fears, wants, and needs often stay the same, even as we change
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7.4
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7.4 |
Pitchfork
The Midwest indie rock band returns with a new wave-influenced album that explores our innate desire to understand and be understood
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Often, their attention is trained backwards, but they're never lost to time. And if they keep progressing like they do on Melodie, pretty soon a lot more people will be humming to their tune
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7.0
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7.0 |
All Music
Full of engaging, low-key hooks and Massey's weary, sympathy-provoking vocals, Melodie remains on theme throughout, closing on the more anguished "Slip Away," a frustrated electric guitar ballad that leaves the singer alone with her post-breakup emotions
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7.0
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7.0 |
God Is In The TV
It has fuzzy bits, pretty bits, noisy bits and sad bits; occasionally several at once
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6.7
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6.7 |
Northern Transmissions
It’s only been 3 years since Yard but hearing Slow Pulp now feels different, like they have traded their thrifted clothes for a trendier fashion. In “Red Car” Massey sings “I need a new start,” and that’s what Melodie feels like, a new beginning, a reintroduction
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6.0
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6.0 |
No Ripcord
It’s obviously more polished and cohesive than the Madison, Wisconsin band’s previous efforts, but it lacks the individuality that made Slow Pulp stand out in the first place
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5.0
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5.0 |
Far Out
Unfortunately, Melodie doesn’t quite contain the charisma of Slow Pulp’s previous discography, and two or three indie-pop gems can’t quite save the album from its own repetitive drawl
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