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Tanlines

Highlights

Second full-length release from the Brooklyn indie rock duo Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm

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5.6

Label
True Panther Sounds / Ada
UK Release date
19/05/2015
US Release date
19/05/2015
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  1. 7.0 |   All Music

    Cohen and Emm are tidy and pleasant craftsmen in a crowded field of peers all referencing the same '80s touch points
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  2. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Even at its most mournful, this is an album charged by bright ideas
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  3. 6.0 |   Under The Radar

    Infuses their house music-lite impulses with traditional instrumentation (read: more guitars) and an even broader sense of contentment and ease
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  4. 6.0 |   NOW

    There's nothing especially memorable on offer, and a lyrical artlessness becomes obvious as the album continues
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  5. 6.0 |   Spin

    The follow-up to 2012’s steel drum-backed beach party, Mixed Emotions, becomes droopy-eyed after, oh, track three
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  6. 5.8 |   Pitchfork

    Becomes defined by its deceiving sort of consistency: maintaining a baseline pleasantry that makes the title into the only unintentional punchline of the whole campaign
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  7. 4.2 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Highlights is like a camel: a horse designed by committee, a spread of think tank EDM and dance tunes made to order
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  8. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    Much of the material sticks to the middle of the road rather than heading out for the edges to see what’s there
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