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8.0
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Evening Standard
Harris’s instrumentals throb; big names Ellie Goulding, Tinie Tempah and Dizzee Rascal are in fine fettle and the lesser-knowns do themselves no harm
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7.0
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7.0 |
BBC
A portfolio of win for Calvin, an annual report where the graph is almost all peaks and the troughs are so far down they’re practically invisible
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7.0
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7.0 |
Tone Deaf
Those who often find themselves looking for any excuse to turn off the nightclub styled tunes can find some refuge and perhaps a new liking for the genre in 18 Months
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Irish Times
There’s a sense that Harris has overplayed his formula when it comes to smash hits
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Arts Desk
The sonic variety is enough to make skipping the odd track seem worthwhile – this narky and bloody-minded Scot has, once again, done pretty good
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Independent
Pumping, brutalist synth-stomp riffs ploughing an extended furrow in which a succession of vocalists – Rihanna, Tinie, Ne-Yo, Dizzee and the like – sow their meagre seeds
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
Harris's production has become increasingly homogenised and, despite the array of vocalists, everything here risks sounding the same
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6.0
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6.0 |
NME
This album feels more like a deserved victory lap than a forward step or a new instalment, but apart from his sole vocal on ‘Feel So Close’, the victor seems oddly absent
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5.8
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5.8 |
A.V. Club
This album is less a monument to the human experience and more a harbinger of the rise of the machines
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5.0
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5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
It’s clear this is a singles album padded out to full length with several otherwise undistinguished songs
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5.0
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5.0 |
PopMatters
For all of the personality he has as a producer and songwriter, almost none of it comes into focus on this blockbuster of a disc
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4.0
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4.0 |
Q
Dumfries pop Midas toils to connect the hits on a disappointing third. Print edition only
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4.0
47831
4.0 |
The Scotsman
Harris can hardly be blamed for surfing a wave until it breaks, but I don’t accept for a minute that this is all he is good for or capable of. Rather than stretching himself thin over so many collaborations, he could try stretching himself compositionally instead
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4.0
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4.0 |
The Guardian
For all the pop divas he has roped in, there's a veneer of cynical, laddy EDM
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