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9.0
13166
9.0 |
PopMatters
Ratatat are auteurs of musical fantasies you want to experience over and over
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8.0
13176
8.0 |
Beats Per Minute
It’s a great album. Each track stands well on its own and yet the album flows smoothly as a single entity
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8.0
13413
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
All you need to do is listen to the stunning closer Alps – a deft combination of hallmark cheesiness counterposed with Mast’s fussy production – to understand that what this band does is intrinsically worthy
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8.0
13101
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
You can put on LP4 around any mixed group of people at a barbeque or house party this summer and people can simply enjoy the sensory pleasure of interesting, lively music without analysing the cultural baggage than comes with it
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7.0
13114
7.0 |
NME
The hooks have gotten naggier, the production crisper, to the point where ‘LP4’’s wide-eyed squelchy funk is carving them an oxymoronic niche: ‘utterly compelling background music’
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7.0
13227
7.0 |
Spin
New sounds - ukulele, bouzouki, real strings, even a pet parakeet - get added to their template of booming drum machines and cop-show guitars
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6.0
14041
6.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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6.0
13103
6.0 |
FasterLouder
Rock, dance, salsa, shoegaze or otherwise, there’s still nobody quite like them. It’s a style-mashing feast for the ears, but just not gripping enough to merit repeat listens
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5.2
13163
5.2 |
Pitchfork
Their sound is wearing increasingly thin and producing diminished results
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4.0
13524
4.0 |
The Irish Times
The tracks sound tired, overwrought and under-cooked, as if the duo just ran out of ideas and gumption in the studio
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4.0
13211
4.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Its execution is too rote, too much the result of being so entrenched in the band's Ratatat-ness that the material is suffocated
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