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The Optimist

New Young Pony Club

The Optimist

Self-produced, self-funded second album of dance-punk from London five piece

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
The Numbers
UK Release date
08/03/2010
  1. 9.0 |   The Quietus

    An early contender for Quietus album of the year? It wouldn't be too optimistic to think so
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  2. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    It’s The Black Kids with their ambient, wandering attitude honed down to a laser-like focus. It’s CSS, it’s Paramore, it’s Miss Kittin, it’s bits of them all with a thousand times more attack
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  3. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    The Optimist is taut and dark, like The XX learning to dance, with basslines that seize your spine and hooks that snag your brai
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  4. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    All in all, it’s a cracking comeback
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  5. 8.0 |   State

    Self-produced, self-funded and self-released, The Optimist is much darker than their previous effort and the feeling is anything but upbeat
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  6. 8.0 |   NME

    It is difficult to imagine a better pop album coming out this year
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  7. 8.0 |   Rave Magazine

    An album that invites you to listen from beginning to end, and get lost in the haze – it’s less flashy than their first, for sure, but no less rewarding
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  8. 7.0 |   Clash

    Let’s get straight to business: NYPC have grown up
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  9. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    With nods to Siouxsie Sioux on the excellent title track and to Toni Halliday on Before The Light, it's all gone post-punk goth with a pop ethic
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  10. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  11. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Despite forays into a wider world, and the dreamy, vulnerable and hypnotic subtlety of 'Stone', you can't help but think that NYPC have still got one foot firmly anchored in the glowstick glimmer of past glories
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  12. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    The 45 minutes of broody disco contained herein is never unlikable. But there's too much that sounds like what a New Young Pony Club album track ought to sound like
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  13. 5.5 |   Pitchfork

    Too often gets lost in non-committal melodies as Bulmer tries and tries again to capture quote-worthy elegant wastefulnes
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  14. 5.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Recommended only to seriously die-hard NWPC fans, and even then you’ll probably want to spotify it first. Put this nag down
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  15. 4.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  16. 4.0 |   PopMatters

    The band is too caught up in being serious to even realize that there’s not a whole going on beneath the surface
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