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8.3
80167
8.3 |
A.V. Club
You can take the indie aesthetic out of the pop group, but you can’t take a wicked contrarian streak and disgust with easy-package commodification out of a band (and singer) who’s made a career of it
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8.0
79892
8.0 |
Exclaim
Most of the tracks are so refined they sparkle
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7.0
80542
7.0 |
PopMatters
Indie veterans Metric tone down their stadium rock proclivities for a more sedated take on their spirited pop sound
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6.5
81328
6.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Pagans is an album of solid hooks
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6.0
80216
6.0 |
Gig Soup
The issue with the album is deciding whether or not you can embrace the change Metric are making for themselves
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6.0
79894
6.0 |
Earbuddy
Right after their treatise against conformity, Metric embrace their pop sensibility
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6.0
79987
6.0 |
musicOMH
This is more of a curate’s egg of an album than anything else
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6.0
79856
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
A record that completes Metric's decade-long move from taut, testy indie rock toward a synthier, dreamier sound
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6.0
79889
6.0 |
NOW
There's no massive Stadium Love-style hit here, though The Shade, with its irritating yet infectious chorus, comes close
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6.0
79852
6.0 |
Pitchfork
Deepens the new-wave dalliances of its predecessor (2012's Synthetica) with their slinkiest, slickest palette to date
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5.8
79854
5.8 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
If Metric were a sports team, a supporter might want them to bottom out, rebuild and get motivated to reach their true potential
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5.0
79853
5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
They no longer sound like they can see the future, and even sometimes sound stuck in the past
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4.5
79855
4.5 |
Under The Radar
Metric aren't holding a belief different than those of the mainstream; they're as religiously wedded to Billboard charts as they are to the motions-fading out with a blurry bow to an unrecognizable deity confirms that
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4.0
80617
4.0 |
No Ripcord
By the time the closing tracks roll around, the album has fallen apart entirely
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4.0
80950
4.0 |
FasterLouder
Save for opener and lead single ‘Lie Lie Lie’, the album exhaustingly drags out already half-baked ideas and weak hooks
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