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The Golden Year

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

The Golden Year

Debut album of synthpop from London duo whose singer Charles Haddon died at a festival in Belgium this summer

ADM rating[?]

6.8

Label
Fire & Manoueuvre
UK Release date
11/10/2010
  1. 8.0 |   The Observer

    Epic but soulful and benefiting from Haddon's ability to cut through the glacially cool electronics with a raw, guileless vulnerability
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  2. 8.0 |   FasterLouder

    It’s clear from listening to the disc that Haddon and his band-mates poured every part of themselves into the record, twisting and tweaking it endlessly until The Golden Year was the immaculate debut of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool that they envisioned
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  3. 7.5 |   BBC

    As a posthumous eulogy to a man’s evolving and endearing pop ability, The Golden Year is perfection
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  4. 7.0 |   NME

    A very encouraging debut... a heartbreaking way to bring a career to a close
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  5. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Sees Ou Est Le Swimming Pool building on the reputation which their previous singles built for them as doyens of punchy synth pop
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  6. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    There’s no question that this is a solid record, but even tracks like the exceptional ‘Dance The Way I Feel’ now echo with a anguish that didn’t seem to be there before.
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  7. 6.0 |   Rave Magazine

    While it would be pushing it to call this album a classic, it’s still a debut that brims with promise, which just makes it sadder to think what might have come after
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  8. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only


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