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8.0
33594
8.0 |
Spin
Barber's home-studio, electro-swirling beats ache, at times even gulp. It's all very darkly serious
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8.0
33598
8.0 |
All Music
Shudders with a crackling energy
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8.0
34258
8.0 |
Uncut
Their damp, dubby electronica is marked by a tropical mugginess that engenders writhing new musical flora. Print edition only
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7.0
34375
7.0 |
NME
The overall experience is like a sexy sonic shoulder-rub
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7.0
33589
7.0 |
Prefix
Original Colors is clearly more concerned with creating sinuous, serpentine grooves than giving your head a bed to float to heaven on
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6.2
33894
6.2 |
Beats Per Minute
Ultimately, the album’s a victim of a band trying out a new sound, losing themselves in one or two ideas, and never recapturing the spontaneity or energy of previous efforts
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6.0
34390
6.0 |
musicOMH
The best moments come when the duo branch out away from their cocooned isolation towards something more akin to a cityscape
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6.0
33587
6.0 |
PopMatters
Their approach is too fragile. Even as High Places grow up, seeing darker realms, leaving behind youthful nostalgia, they are not yet able to reach the top
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6.0
33588
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Bigger, wilder, and less pop structured
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5.9
33585
5.9 |
Pitchfork
Easily their most danceable, production-centered record to date, Original Colors moves with a quicker pulse than anything that came before it
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5.0
33815
5.0 |
No Ripcord
Sadly, Original Colors isn't extraordinary music
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4.5
33892
4.5 |
Bowlegs
They fail to make any sort of impact on their listeners’ eardrums
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4.0
33591
4.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
They’ve managed to make an album that is undeniably focused around rhythms sound like an absolute slog
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