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Escort

Escort

Escort

Debut album from this Brooklyn duo who turned to straight disco - and grew into a 17-strong band - after years of making house singles

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Tirk
UK Release date
14/11/2012
US Release date
22/11/2012
  1. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    Pop-length tracks with hooks aplenty, and occasionally, with genealogies that are a blast to sort through
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  2. 8.0 |   Spin

    What's really great about this album is how utterly present it feels
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  3. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    Escort have ascended to the top ranks of neo-disco acts, swinging their way through the demands of disco with the consummate skill of the kind of crack big bands that were everywhere in the late 1970s
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  4. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Escort’s lyrics, one-dimensional caricatures of the disco life, are especially disappointing when compared to their music, which for all its references, sounds layered, assured, modern, and unconstrained by history
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  5. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Escort's shtick can be too on-the-nose – you wish they took more liberties, spiked their 1977 with a bit more 2012
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  6. 6.0 |   Clash

    Real instrumentation, melodic songwriting and flawless production
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  7. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Both fun and dumb in almost annoyingly perfect proportion
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  8. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Escort’s retro sound does not blend with more contemporary styles and aesthetics; it’s disco revivalism at its purest
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  9. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Their hi-NRG disco is filtered through contemporary club culture. Print edition only


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