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Original Colors

High Places

Original Colors

Third album from the LA-based experimental pop duo multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber and vocalist Mary Pearson

ADM rating[?]

6.2

Label
Thrill Jockey
UK Release date
07/11/2011
US Release date
11/10/2011
  1. 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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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    Shudders with a crackling energy
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  3. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Their damp, dubby electronica is marked by a tropical mugginess that engenders writhing new musical flora. Print edition only

  4. 7.0 |   NME

    The overall experience is like a sexy sonic shoulder-rub
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  5. 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. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Bigger, wilder, and less pop structured
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  10. 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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  11. 5.0 |   No Ripcord

    Sadly, Original Colors isn't extraordinary music
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  12. 4.5 |   Bowlegs

    They fail to make any sort of impact on their listeners’ eardrums
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  13. 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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