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Look At The Powerful People

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Look At The Powerful People

Debut album from the South-London dance / house band led by twins Will and Matt Ritson and produced by Leon Vynehall

ADM rating[?]

6.3

Label
Warner Bros / Grand Jury
UK Release date
24/03/2017
US Release date
24/03/2017
  1. 8.0 |   NME

    Like the churches they attended in their youth, Formation’s music is a call to arms to come together – not in the name of God, but society. Join them now
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  2. 8.0 |   DIY

    Formation’s greatest strength is in their deep, propulsive hooks
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  3. 8.0 |   Q

    They make all the right moves on this brilliant debut. Print edition only

  4. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Are Formation part of the problem, or part of the solution? Thankfully, it’s the latter. But there’s a smidge of the former to muddy the waters
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  5. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    This London-based quintet have delivered a debut with all the hallmarks of a band who will continue to refine their own distinctive niche
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  6. 7.0 |   Mixmag

    Fifteen years after The Rapture and LCD Soundsystem unified the electronic and alternative music scenes, Formation are underpinning their urgent, politically motivated tunes with house sensibilities
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  7. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    A debut packed album with rich grooves tailor made for the dancefloor, but their socio-political ambitions fall disappointingly short
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  8. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Their snarling debut album, all cowbells and warped grooves, is competent punk-funk that rarely deviates from the model established by the Rapture and LCD Soundsystem, whose vocals singer Will slavishly imitates
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  9. 6.0 |   All Music

    The temptation is to listen to some of their mentors instead, as many of the acts who have walked this sonic highway before have done so with much more swagger, a better inclination for a danceable tune, and an inherent dose of innovation
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  10. 6.0 |   Mojo

    A surfeit of vocals is distracting. Print edition only

  11. 4.2 |   Pitchfork

    Begins with 54 of the most exciting seconds of music I’ve heard in 2017. And then they start talking
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  12. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    Post-Brexit rabble-rousers
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