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Give Up Your Dreams

The Phoenix Foundation

Give Up Your Dreams

Sixth album of dreamy indie rock from the Wellington, New Zealand five-piece

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Memphis Industries
UK Release date
07/08/2015
US Release date
07/08/2015
  1. 9.0 |   Gig Soup

    There are some interesting features such as electronic vocal harmonies, dreamy guitar and instrumentals, unexpected timings, clever instrumentation and general electropop-meets-rock magnificence!
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Worldwide success could be in the offing
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  3. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Continue to surprise with their unpredictable synthesis of yesteryear genres progressive rock and psychedelic pop with modern day indie accessibility
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  4. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Their previous Fleet Foxes-esque melodies are still there, but there’s a miasma of other elements at play
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  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Electronic overhaul for New Zealand's pop-psych torchbearers. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Q

    A nice career reboot which doesn't torch everything they've achieved in 15 years together. Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   NME

    A fabulous meld of power-pop, electronica and US West Coast harmony
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  8. 7.0 |   The Music

    A joyous rummage through harmony-layered peppy pop
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  9. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    It’s all rather wonderful nonsense – playful, engaging and not always entirely successful. But come take a trip, and surely you won’t be disappointed
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  10. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Psych soundscapes, Afrobeat and squiggly synths make this a funny, infectious record. Print edition only

  11. 7.0 |   Clash

    In choosing to move down a more percussive path, the Phoenix Foundation set themselves a challenge quite different than those they had previously faced
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  12. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Most of the songs here are akin to classic pop bangers that have almost gone out of fashion
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  13. 6.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    The album’s central defeatist theme echoes throughout
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