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Do Things

Dent May

Do Things

The Mississippi purveyor of quirky pop abandons his ukelele in favour of a synth-driven disco feel on his 2nd album

ADM rating[?]

6.3

Label
Paw Tracks
UK Release date
11/06/2012
US Release date
12/06/2012
  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    A cool treat of a record, filled with catchy and sweet songs that have a relaxed and easygoing happiness that is impossible to resist
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  2. 7.8 |   Paste Magazine

    A pleasant, shiny trip. Expect it to lift you up and leave you hankering something sweet to suck on
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  3. 7.5 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Playful, consciously immature, and packed to the brim with sunny pop melodies
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  4. 7.5 |   Tone Deaf

    Music of this kind is often better left to create a mood, than as fodder for deep introspection. And in this, May succeeds
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  5. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    May retains flourishes and touches to make an intriguing record that holds up after multiple listens
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  6. 7.0 |   Blurt

    Do Things has a few missteps, but May just keeps smiling and charging forward
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  7. 7.0 |   Spin

    Mississippi quirkster swaps ukulele for Beach Boys harmonies and Casio funk; swell tunes, summer vibes abound
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  8. 6.6 |   Pitchfork

    For all the good-natured vibes this record gives off, it's hard to ignore that Do Things is also a limited collection
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  9. 6.0 |   Uncut

    His attempts at pop-funk sound more gauche than his nifty songcraft deserves. Print edition only

  10. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    As a whole, the album treads the fine line of genre fetishism and reinvention
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  11. 6.0 |   Beats Per Minute

    The record sounds tired, dreamy, and wasted in the daylight at five in the afternoon– it tries to be breezy, but instead still feels like 99 degrees of heat
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  12. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    A pleasant enough experience while it plays, but it’s quite forgettable overall
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  13. 5.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    It’s the album of a trier that wants to be Prince and hopes to find beauty in reaching for the impossible, but instead produces a digital squelch that wants to be pop but doesn’t seem to deal in hooks
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  14. 5.0 |   Bowlegs

    His diluted sunshine pop lacks originality and falls well short of what we were hoping for
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  15. 5.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Hard to connect with and doesn’t seem to have enough substance
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