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8.0
50292
8.0 |
Clash
A record very much in thrall to the successful pop of the early-’80s
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6.0
50437
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Too often, though, the album feels like Delphic is repeating the formula rather than working towards any sort of breakthrough
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6.0
50617
6.0 |
musicOMH
The production drips with gloss, but unlike Acolyte, it’s a gloss that obscures rather than glimmers
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6.0
50089
6.0 |
Q
Collections occasionally projects a sense of strain. Print edition only
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6.0
50093
6.0 |
Uncut
Finds them moving closer to Muse, with its orchestral flourishes, existential couplets and singer James Cook's frequently overwrought vocals. Print edition only
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6.0
50115
6.0 |
The Guardian
Delphic's determination to bring together so many possible new directions proves the album's undoing, and it peters out towards the end
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6.0
50174
6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Even in the Midas hands of DFA's Tim Goldsworthy, they're sounding like just another rock band with a bit of synth thrown in
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6.0
50074
6.0 |
DIY
An altogether more slinky record but, at times it veers surprisingly close to pure pop territory
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6.0
50075
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Listened to alone, catchy monsters such as The Sun Also Rises or Baiya are persuasive but listening to the album as a whole, the obsession with surface sheen often grates
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5.0
50087
5.0 |
NME
A confident and professional album, not all that different to Acolyte. And it's not different enough
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5.0
50188
5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Collections is enjoyable, in the way that ready meals can be enjoyable, with their sugar hit and empty calories, their disposability and easy consumption. But who remembers a ready meal?
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5.0
50655
5.0 |
God Is In The TV
Delphic’s courage of taking risks and experimenting must be applauded despite the outcome
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5.0
51906
5.0 |
PopMatters
Songs succumb to the stylings that make bad mainstream pop music garish and annoying rather than uplifting and catchy
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4.0
50180
4.0 |
BBC
Throughout, there’s a nagging suspicion that the past three years have been spent assembling a sonic patchwork of ill-fitting hand-me-downs, rather than weaving their own, better-suited garments
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4.0
50266
4.0 |
State
Rather than subtle ellipses and building atmosphere, we are offered over produced radio pop
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2.0
50177
2.0 |
The Observer
Everything on Collections is ramped up: breakbeats boof portentously, while Delphic's sleek edges now squeak like an over-enthusiastic 80s wax job
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