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10.0
74299
10.0 |
The Guardian
A modern-day psychedelia that owes almost nothing to that genre’s hackneyed conventions and never forgets to temper the sublimity with darkness
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8.5
74302
8.5 |
Crack
If in 2015 the most radical thing you can do is believe in something, then Jam City has given us another essential effort
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8.0
74298
8.0 |
The Observer
A departure from the glossy, alien-sounding club music of his debut, it’s a slow, fragmentary work taking cues from drone and post-punk, with Latham’s vocals half-buried in layers of sound
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7.0
75104
7.0 |
The Quietus
Dream A Garden is an album full of admirable ideas and clearly coloured by his past, but as a step towards his future, it falls in between its own ambition and true excellence
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7.0
74300
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
“The Garden Thrives” serves as a triumphant opening; it couples phased and destroyed noise with a plucky melody that epitomizes Dream a Garden at its best: jaunty and introspective, with careful attention paid to some aesetheticized music history
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6.5
74301
6.5 |
Pitchfork
Dream a Garden suggests a maze-like expanse within its borders, perfect for getting lost in. Unfortunately, the album only partly lives up to those promises
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6.0
74336
6.0 |
NOW
The songs touch on the alienating effects of consumerism, drugs, depression and porn, and yet once these themes are set to pop melodies, they become relatable, universal
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