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8.0
64831
8.0 |
All Music
Compared to their chameleonic debut, The Way and Color sometimes almost feels too consistent, but hearing TEEN's fondness for reinvention focused into songs this good is even more rewarding
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8.0
64954
8.0 |
Q
They've evolved into something exceptional and original. It's a startling transformation. Print edition only
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8.0
64959
8.0 |
Uncut
A terrific, club-attuned set that renders them barely recognisable. Print edition only
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8.0
64829
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Not an album designed to blend into the background noise of your day. It really demands your time. It demands to be listened to
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7.5
64824
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
It’s a slick and glossy record, even at its most unhinged
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7.0
64832
7.0 |
The 405
An admirable, solid effort, surely paving the way for better material on the not so distant, sunset dripping, horizon
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7.0
64838
7.0 |
PopMatters
The Way and Color may not be the final destination for this breed of indie, but it does serve as a striking signpost along the way
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7.0
64878
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
TEEN have ditched the relatively straight-up indie pop of their first album in favour of a smoother, melodious sound
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6.9
64828
6.9 |
Earbuddy
Can find itself twisting out of sense or proportion, but appropriately just when you need it to, the album returns to its melody innovation
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6.7
65051
6.7 |
Pretty Much Amazing
There’s good reason to think that some of the more middling fare on The Way and Color is no more than growing pains
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6.6
64827
6.6 |
Pitchfork
They are getting better, inch-by-inch, and if The Way and Color is not all the way there yet you can hear it as a promising document of a formative period
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6.0
65400
6.0 |
The Music
Skimming through genres like an expertly thrown stone across a crystalline pond
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6.0
65608
6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
For the most part, Teen feed us that standard hipster R’n’B nonsense, suggesting they’ve backed the wrong seahorse one to many times
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6.0
64830
6.0 |
The Observer
There are enough interesting touches here to make album number three something to look forward to
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4.0
64826
4.0 |
DIY
What we have is quite ironically, a record lacking both direction and colour
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