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False Beats & True Hearts

Damon & Naomi

False Beats & True Hearts

Album number eight from the Boston dream pop duo

ADM rating[?]

6.2

Label
20/20/20
UK Release date
17/05/2011
US Release date
17/05/2011
  1. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    By no means a reinvention of Damon & Naomi’s signature, sigh-worthy sound, but it does add a lilting arc to its unassuming grace
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  2. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Represent the evolution of those who grew up with punk and came of age with post-punk, while listening to the eclectic sounds of the late ‘60s
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  3. 7.0 |   Blurt

    Sounds as warm and enticing as all of their previous ones
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  4. 6.9 |   Pitchfork

    False Beats and True Hearts is a slow bloom, an album whose rewards can become fully apparent only through thoughtful immersion
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  5. 6.5 |   Bowlegs

    This is an album, it has to be said, that is unlikely to set rock ’n’ roll thrill-seekers pulses’ racing
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  6. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  7. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Notable once again for the spangled guitar of long-term collaborator, Ghost's Michio Kurihara. Print edition only

  8. 6.0 |   Q

    Not unlike an anaesthetised Bell & Sebastian. Print edition only

  9. 5.0 |   The Digital Fix

    The pace is best described as pedestrian (this is not music to skate to), the overall sound warm and enveloping
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