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10.0
87413
10.0 |
NME
A perfectly formed record full of buoyant pop songs
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9.0
87407
9.0 |
Uncut
These are nuclear-grade pop hits that don't sacrifice on adult emotional complexity: a rare power. Print edition only
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9.0
87560
9.0 |
Gig Soup
Much like Taylor Swift in 2014 and Carly Rae Jepsen in 2015, Tegan & Sara may have just dropped the acclaimed pop record of the year
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8.5
87943
8.5 |
The 405
A stunning song suite of positivity that leaves you yearning for thirty more equally superb minutes
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8.3
87437
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Love You To Death is an apt title for an album so full of effortlessly addicting pop that nonetheless exhausts a sole musical formula in every permutation
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8.0
87536
8.0 |
All Music
Like Heartthrob, this is pop music that is all heart all the time, and for that, the sisters deserve every accolade that comes their way
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8.0
87539
8.0 |
Evening Standard
It’s hard to fault the twins’ sharp songwriting, though it’s a perfectly polished album you’ll probably like yet never really love
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8.0
87541
8.0 |
The FT
Each track clocks in at three minutes of high-quality bubblegum synth-pop, at once throwaway and moreish, a sweet spot of bright beats and melodies
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8.0
87548
8.0 |
The Observer
Glossy pop with razor-sharp lyrics
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8.0
87297
8.0 |
The Music
Clear justification of their fans' anticipation
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8.0
87299
8.0 |
Spin
The band’s latest taps into newer, more effervescent realms of upbeat expression musically
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8.0
87337
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Tegan and Sara’s heart-on-sleeve songwriting finds them as much the heartbreakers as the heartbroken
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8.0
87369
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
This is Tegan and Sara’s pop moment, and they want you to know it
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8.0
88188
8.0 |
musicOMH
An album full of intelligent, sensitive pop songs, and at a time when the watermark for such music is pretty high anyway, it really does stand out from the crowd
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8.0
87435
8.0 |
The Guardian
For all Tegan and Sara’s adoption by the queens of teen pop, Love You to Death feels like a distinctly grownup album, unafraid to explore nuanced, mature themes
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8.0
87590
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Tegan and Sara have reached the end of a thorny, awkward path to pop perfection
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8.0
87621
8.0 |
FasterLouder
The overarching feeling here is confidence – the result of a band that threw themselves off a cliff and found a net hanging just below
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8.0
87650
8.0 |
Beardfood
Love songs stretch from the optimism of ‘U-Turn’ to the passion of ‘100x’, and keep the Quin twins’ career revitalisation going
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8.0
87652
8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Concision tightens the occasional slack of the duo’s previous album and produces an LP with an old-school pop sensibility
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8.0
87770
8.0 |
State
These are the kind of sophisticated, endlessly relatable songs they’ve done their entire career, only now with an added sheen that makes it click in unexpected ways
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8.0
87798
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Carry on making records like this and the rest of the pop world will have to finally take notice of what the queer indie kids have been banging on about for the last decade and a half
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8.0
87856
8.0 |
Clash
If you like your pop with a bit more bite to it, then Tegan and Sara are everything you’re looking for
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7.5
87449
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
They were just waiting for the mainstream to catch up
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7.1
87620
7.1 |
Pitchfork
At their best, they boil love songs down to their aching essence
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7.0
88257
7.0 |
PopMatters
Three years after their unlikely ascent into synthpop stardom, Tegan and Sara continue down the same path with minor shifts to their thematic compass
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7.0
87416
7.0 |
Exclaim
Love You to Death finds Tegan and Sara offering another solid soundtrack for summer romances and road-trips alike
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6.0
87409
6.0 |
NOW
When they stop aiming for catchiness and instead get real about relationships, LYTD sparkles
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6.0
87298
6.0 |
The Skinny
Tegan and Sara colour inside the lines a little too much
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6.0
87516
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
The songs here don't quite hit the same level of high-gloss overdrive they managed last time out
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6.0
87517
6.0 |
Under The Radar
One thing's for sure: Tegan and Sara are setting themselves up for one knockout of a greatest hits album
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4.2
87599
4.2 |
Pretty Much Amazing
As Tegan and Sara themselves put it on “100x”, you’ve already heard it “a thousand times a different way”
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4.0
87605
4.0 |
Earbuddy
Love You To Death is excellently produced and tightly composed, but there’s no beating heart under any of its veneer
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