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Thought the Future Would Be Cooler

Yacht

Thought the Future Would Be Cooler

Sixth album from the Portland electropop duo now based in LA

ADM rating[?]

6.3

Label
Downtown Records
UK Release date
16/10/2015
US Release date
16/10/2015
  1. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Future finds YACHT alive in a whole new way, with the group crafting not only some of the best pop of their careers, but of 2015 as a whole
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  2. 8.0 |   All Music

    Moves feet, brings smiles, and snaps like bubblegum
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  3. 7.5 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Offers just about the best time you can have inside a fit of existential dread
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  4. 7.0 |   The Music

    YACHT are sounding more relevant than ever
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  5. 7.0 |   Exclaim

    Preventing such weighty topics from becoming too exhausting are the upbeat instrumentals with which they've been paired
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  6. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Utterly engaging. Print edition only

  7. 6.5 |   Under The Radar

    This immaculate nugget of poppy perfection is almost too clinical for its own good and aesthetically, that's not inappropriate.
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  8. 6.5 |   The 405

    Leaves the listener wishing for a little less preaching and a little more grooving
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  9. 6.0 |   Clash

    An interesting amalgam of deep themes set to brazenly outlandish pop styles
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  10. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    If it all feels rather cold and scary, perhaps that’s the point. Until then, just dance
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  11. 6.0 |   The List

    Inside this record there’s a stone classic trying to get out
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  12. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Simple, sexy and rapturously surface-level
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  13. 5.0 |   Pitchfork

    Future is YACHT's would-be critique of our pre-dystopian, post-Internet culture, but it rarely comes off as more than a charismatic cover band singing us yesterday's news
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  14. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The world has come to terms with the fact the future ain’t quite what we expected it to be, and solid pop tunes aside, YACHT need to do the same when they next come to making a record
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  15. 4.0 |   Q

    The sound of a band running on empty. Print edition only


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