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8.0
7621
8.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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8.0
7760
8.0 |
The Times
The longer you listen to Fool’s Gold, with their more intuitive assimilation of global influences, the more tempting it is to downgrade Vampire Weekend’s diametrically opposed attempts to do something similarly ambitious
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8.0
8172
8.0 |
The Guardian
Their joyful grooves are stuffed with revolving guitar motifs and highlife drum patterns
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8.0
8254
8.0 |
musicOMH
Fool's Gold, the album, has been made with genuine passion and a desire to pay homage to something its creators clearly love
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8.0
8278
8.0 |
The Observer
...a perpetually rolling lost-tribes vibe that could soundtrack BBC4's Lost Kingdoms of Africa series. Unexpectedly great.
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8.0
14531
8.0 |
Eye Weekly
Their sparkling guitars and djembe-heavy polyrhythms make for a faithful tribute to legends like Fela Kuti, but Fool’s Gold complicates matters just a tad by singing in Hebrew
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7.6
1512
7.6 |
Pitchfork
The sounds of Touareg and Afrobeat and Ghanaian Highlife are rippling through the eight songs here, each a rollicking, warm reflection of appreciation.
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7.0
8549
7.0 |
Clash
Half the songs are in Hebrew, half in English, but all of them are fascinating experiments with rhythm, melody and pure sound
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7.0
8096
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The sound of a very new collective finding their creative jam force and honing it – to beautiful heights ... that perhaps make the lows seem a little lower than they actually are
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6.0
8100
6.0 |
NME
While ‘Surprise Hotel’ and ‘Night Dancing’ make for postmodern magpie pop, there’s something curiously passionless about this record
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6.0
7737
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
8241
6.0 |
The Fly
Unlike Vampire Weekend, it’s the western pop influence that comes second to their joyous brand of thumping afrobeat and obscure instruments
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