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The Palace Garden

Beat Connection

The Palace Garden

First full album from the Seattle quartet, blending house, indie pop and electro-pop

ADM rating[?]

6.8

Label
Tender Age
UK Release date
06/08/2012
US Release date
14/08/2012
  1. 9.0 |   The Fly

    2012’s most perfect summer record? Quite possibly…
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  2. 8.0 |   Q

    A joyful, loved-up delight. Print edition only

  3. 7.0 |   All Music

    A sleek debut that pays homage to their influences and shows off their mature style
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  4. 7.0 |   Blurt

    A great return, Garden is a glimpse into the creative range this talented group has to offer
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  5. 7.0 |   DIY

    It’s debatable as to whether 'Palace Garden' would sound as effective in a couple of weeks time but for now Beat Connection – just – manage to succinctly soundtrack the last gasps of summer
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  6. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    This album is something to admire from a distance, to enjoy in a detached and disinterested way; indeed, to engage too fully in this music is to break its evanescent spell
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  7. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Disappointingly hit and miss; the positives are that the album flows as one piece and the mood of the record as a whole is brilliantly judged
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  8. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Beat Connection's more outright pop tunes – the steel drum-led Further Out and title track's tales of "grooving to the rhythm of the soft light" – could make anybody want to hit the beach
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  9. 6.0 |   NME

    Features the kind of totally tropical Friendly Fires-y, M83-wired chugga-dance-indie that holds its keyboards and laptops slightly tighter to its chest than its guitar strap
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  10. 6.0 |   Clash

    Sadly, it lends itself as just background noise at times; a filler to a party
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