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Love Songs: Part Two

Romare

Love Songs: Part Two

Second album of sample-based electronica from Archie Fairhurst, moving from jazz and blues to disco and psychedelic based samples

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Ninja Tune
UK Release date
11/11/2016
US Release date
11/11/2016
  1. 9.0 |   Mixmag

    Precisely the sort of confounding of expectations we love to hear, and bodes well for a long, interesting career
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  2. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    His song collages take inspiration from all over the spectrum of audio love: soul, funk, girl groups, jazz, French, and sometimes just a killer groove
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  3. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    This is a warm piece of percussive and melodic greatness
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  4. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    Here the Londoner’s mission is less about recycling than creating his own psych-ish oddities
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  5. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    It's Romare at his finest so far, and whets the appetite for whatever honeyed treasures Part Three might hold
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  6. 8.0 |   Clash

    With ‘… Part Two’, Romare sets out to bring in elements of his distinct sound from across his career always combining it with something fresh and invigorating
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  7. 8.0 |   Evening Standard

    An album that expands his sound to fascinating new places. Print edition only

  8. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    On Love Songs: Part 2, Romare shines in his ability to take the listener on a journey that twists and turns, but never quite loses the plot
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  9. 7.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    With Fairhurst deftly easing through the full range (lust, tenderness, affairs, doubt…) ‘Love Songs…’ is still rich with the same gilded production style
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  10. 7.0 |   All Music

    Romare's disjointed sound takes some getting used to, but it's often bewitching, and Love Songs, Pt. 2 is his best effort yet
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  11. 7.0 |   The Music

    A focus on beats that roll from funk to disco and house with even a little rave thrown in for good measure
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  12. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Fairhurst clearly knows the atmospheric score when it comes to making tracks zig and zag in all the right ways
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