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Sam Sparro

Return To Paradise

Second album of electro-pop from the Sydney-born music producer

ADM rating[?]: 4.3
Label: Virgin Music
UK Release date: 18/06/2012
US Release date: 26/06/2012

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8.0 | The Irish Times

A quality pop album all round: one that bows to the golden era without forgetting the future
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6.0 42922
6.0 | Independent on Sunday

A patchy affair which too often fails to transcend its blatant P-funk influences
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4.0 | The Guardian

There's a shift towards a more grown-up, funk-pop sound, though too often this comes off as a straight-up Prince parody
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4.0 | Q

Mining the same seam with diminishing returns. Print edition only
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3.0 | Tone Deaf

The album lacks a theme or pattern and just ends up sounding like a whole heap of sounds dumped together with no real flow
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3.0 | musicOMH

Like Sparro himself, Return To Paradise is very sharply dressed and slick. But as was the case with a great deal of his debut album, the music all feels rather superficial and meaningless
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3.0 | The Line Of Best Fit

Considering the flatness of his first album, the most one could expect from Sparro’s second was a collection of vaguely tolerable R’n'B tunes. Unfortunately, many of the songs on Return to Paradise err on the side of abrasive, falling short of “tolerable” by a mile
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