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Lost In Alphaville

The Rentals

Lost In Alphaville

Third album and first in fourteen years for the power pop / new wave band fronted by former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Polyvinyl
UK Release date
08/09/2014
US Release date
26/08/2014
  1. 8.0 |   Paste Magazine

    Most of its surface springs with major keys, uptempos and earworms, with warm boy-girl harmonies cooing and coiling together over smiling pianos and power chords
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  2. 8.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Brimming with melody and bursting with energy, The Rentals have made a statement album out of Lost In Alphaville. Those who afford this the attention that it so richly deserves will be rewarded
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  3. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    Weezer aren't what they used to be, but 15 years later The Rentals are better than ever
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  4. 7.0 |   NME

    Warm and welcoming, Alphaville sounds a great place to lose yourself
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  5. 6.9 |   Pitchfork

    The most pensive, sobering album in the Rentals’ canon, establishing a tension between the band’s gleaming futurist fantasias and a festering, dreams-unfulfilled ennui
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  6. 6.7 |   A.V. Club

    Where the earlier album showcased raw, lo-fi tech-pop, however, Lost In Alphaville is an all-out saturation of sound, with some songs comprising more than 200 elements
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  7. 6.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Sounds like a confident yet tentative toe back in the water
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  8. 6.5 |   Earbuddy

    There are a few pop gems here. “Damaris” offers a beautiful ballad, and “Stardust” has a chorus that’s impossible to avoid
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  9. 6.0 |   DIY

    It’s lighthearted and radio-ready and fun while being marginally original about it, and that’s okay
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  10. 6.0 |   Exclaim

    This album has less fuzzy nerd-rock force than the Rentals' '90s releases, instead offering a dreamy brand of pop peppered with thunderclaps and static-y synths
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  11. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    For all of its problems, though, Lost in Alphaville is still a welcome return for an under-appreciated songwriter
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