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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
This is an engaging, rewarding listen that promises great things in the future from our four heroes
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8.0
20760
8.0 |
PopMatters
A requiem for lost dreams, a ‘melancholy dolly’, but, crucially, Ruppert packs a killer knack for melody, too
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7.0
18528
7.0 |
The Fly
Though ‘New Love’ is almost claustrophobic in the weight of it’s emotions, it’s a more than worthwhile record to sink int
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7.0
18550
7.0 |
Clash
Joy Division casts long, dark shadow over the project, with Ruppert particular indebted to Ian Curtis’ echoing tones
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7.0
18568
7.0 |
NME
As warm, life-affirming and snuggly as a coatless night on the Siberian steppes
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Digital Fix
An undeniably difficult and occasionally frustrating effort, New Love nonetheless creeps its way into the consciousness, with the richness of its warm emotional core amidst the cold electronic instrumentation
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
These songs remain frustratingly inconsistent in both their consequence and their constructs, leaving the listener grasping for more emotion than these tracks provide, and a warmth that ultimately only flickers but never fully alights
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6.0
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State
For the floating voter, there mightn’t be quite enough to distinguish New Love from the other purveyors of icy gloom doing the rounds at the moment
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6.0
18527
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The Observer
You're left longing for a bit more sparseness to set off the dark intensity of these voices.
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6.0
18530
6.0 |
The Skinny
The whole album is a maelstrom of good, bad and plain listener isolation. Which is what makes it so damn interesting
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6.0
18533
6.0 |
BBC
This could have been so much more had they let themselves bring a dash of Zola Jesus and Xiu Xiu, rather than phoning in their parts
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5.3
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Pitchfork
Freddy Ruppert is the frontman of a group better served when someone else is center stage
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4.0
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4.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
No doubt there's an EP's-worth of gems buried here that are worth returning to, but for the most part, New Love resembles its thematic obsession: it's a strained affair
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