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Let It Sway

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Let It Sway

Fourth album of melodic power pop from the Missouri quartet

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7.2

Label
Polyvinyl
UK Release date
16/08/2010
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  1. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Creating an album that is this finely-crafted, with this level of songmanship, while still making it feel like something that appeared during an afternoon messing around in a park, is quite an accomplishment
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  2. 8.5 |   The 405

    They haven't lost their ability to write a great pop song - the whole record is full of them
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  3. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Let It Sway proves that SSLYBY are still a power-pop force to be reckoned with, and that they're nicely outgrowing the offhand irony of their name
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  4. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin have accomplished something commendable with Let It Sway: it’s an album that sounds fresh and interesting that also keeps the fires of generational pop nostalgia burning brightly in a whole new setting
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  5. 7.8 |   Beats Per Minute

    Philip Dickey and the guys still have that just-messing-around vibe that got them started. It just so happens that what results is, more often than not, effortlessly brilliant
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  6. 7.0 |   Prefix

    The album’s lyrical shortcomings are easy to overlook, especially when most of its best parts occur when the words drop away entirely and the crisp handclaps come in
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  7. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    They aren’t just a sugary sweet pop band. The songs are well crafted and at times take you where you don’t expect
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  8. 7.0 |   AU Review

    SSLYBY have a vibrant, youthful approach to songwriting, the results of which will clear foreboding clouds away and have you throwing indie guitar licks like never before
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  9. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    Their straightforward brand of retro power-pop may never be trendy, but it never goes out of style, and when done with passion and monster hooks, it can still make inroads
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  10. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    An almost unremitting wave of florid, feel good beach pop strumming
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  11. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    With flashes of pop, rock, punk, alt-rock, and beyond, the album exceeds in filling a sonic gap and standing triumphantly as its own creation
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