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8.0
76529
8.0 |
State
Despite the odd misstep, this is still the biggest party-starting album of 2015 so far
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8.0
76599
8.0 |
DIY
What Diplo has created in his third Major Lazer outing is no mere concept, no experiment - it’s a damn blueprint
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8.0
77183
8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
This record should be a requirement for the music collection of anyone who wants to remember where pop music and EDM were in 2015
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7.4
76687
7.4 |
Pitchfork
They've made a great pop record through uniting some of the globe's most exciting and celebrated pop artists
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7.0
76704
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
It's hard to think of anyone else who could bring so much together inside one gigantic DJ tent and make it all flow so well
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7.0
77251
7.0 |
FasterLouder
Although patchy, Peace still has enough worth salvaging to make it a worthwhile investment for your dancing shoes
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7.0
76639
7.0 |
Beardfood
This is his best complete collection to date
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7.0
77088
7.0 |
PopMatters
Peace Is the Mission provides the comforting thesis: if peace can be achieved by dancing, this is the album to spin
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6.0
77002
6.0 |
Gig Soup
Major Lazer's most gallant attempt at winning over a radio audience yet. For the most part, they've succeeded - if their mission was indeed to hit the pop market
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6.0
76685
6.0 |
Q
Feels like too much of a splurge to be enjoyable right through. Print edition only
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6.0
76629
6.0 |
The Skinny
PITM will either press your buttons, like the smartly curated disco nonsense that it is, or it’ll mash your keyboard like an uninvited cat
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6.0
76637
6.0 |
Digital Spy
Major Lazer's most valiant attempt at winning over the radio airwaves yet
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6.0
76530
6.0 |
The Music
Once his underground vanity project, Major Lazer seems now Diplo’s flagship sailing toward chartland, and it’ll be time for many to hit the lifeboats
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6.0
76532
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Be Together is too silken, and there are missteps with vocalists (such as Ellie Goulding on the syrupy Powerful). There is so much potential here
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6.0
76568
6.0 |
The Observer
The more restrained moments, such as hit single Lean On, nicely accentuate the crazed moombahton intensity of tracks such as Blaze up the Fire
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6.0
77523
6.0 |
Mojo
A party-popping pleasure dome of insistent dancehall treasures with a trendier-than-thou guest list. Print edition only
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6.0
78236
6.0 |
Under The Radar
The whole thing is a little cheap, but clever, making it so much fun to be on the receiving end
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6.0
76719
6.0 |
Exclaim
Probably best to not overthink it — let it unfurl like the cartoon act it is, and just replay the tracks that make you move
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5.0
76793
5.0 |
Spin
Diplo and Co. threw everything at the wall and turned around, pretending it stuck when all that’s really left is the splatter from undercooked leftovers
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4.2
76796
4.2 |
Pretty Much Amazing
In the end Major Lazer’s wilted sense of identity overpowers the special tracks on the album
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4.0
76531
4.0 |
The Arts Desk
Peace is the Mission suggests that Diplo is ready to step down from being a leader of the pack as far as dance music is concerned, to being just another face in the crowd
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4.0
77005
4.0 |
NOW
Dated cheeseball synth presets, uninspired choruses, goofy samples and clunky rhythm programming
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