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9.0
96511
9.0 |
Mixmag
Whether he’s working with Hot Chip, The 2 Bears or any number of his productions and remixes, he retains a liberating enthusiasm for the power of music to move you. And that shines through on ‘Electric Lines’
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8.0
95849
8.0 |
musicOMH
Like the best of the genre, it’s an album which sounds equally effective whether it be filling a dance floor or providing background for cleaning the house
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8.0
95152
8.0 |
The Music
A fabulously well-crafted listen
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7.5
95189
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Despite a little sagging in the middle third, Electric Lines is a fine club-friendly album to spend the summer with
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7.5
95272
7.5 |
Under The Radar
After only one listen through, we are fleeing to Goddard's dancefloor
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7.2
95150
7.2 |
Pitchfork
A collection of charming odes to the history of dance music
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7.0
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7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Goddard’s ear for the dancefloor switches from playful rave ups to stylishly slides techno, deep house and ’90s throwbacks
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7.0
95552
7.0 |
AU Review
Overall, Electric Lines is super refreshing, and captures the present day we all live in together, being consciously addicted to technology and Google
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6.5
95176
6.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
His array of past triumphs should leave us expecting a little more
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6.4
95487
6.4 |
Paste Magazine
What we get are atomized considerations — hot takes — on decades of dance music from one of its progeny
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6.0
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6.0 |
Exclaim
Joe Goddard shoots for something eclectic and exciting, but settles for something sporadically enjoyable at best
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6.0
95466
6.0 |
State
Electric Lines is a good album but not a great one, a show-off of Goddard’s enviable talents and knowledge that doesn’t quite achieve its goals but gets pretty close
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6.0
95595
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Home is a winner, Goddard and vocalist Daniel Wilson using the latter’s lovely vocals and some beautifully structured samples to create a moment of verve and gentle euphoria
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6.0
95190
6.0 |
The Guardian
Hot Chip are one of the great singles bands of the last decade, which is a nice way of saying that their albums are full of pointless filler; so it continues to prove with their singer-keyboardist Joe Goddard’s solo LP
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6.0
95151
6.0 |
The Skinny
This preoccupation with the connections between different genres which robs Electric Lines of a galvanising, driving force
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5.0
95153
5.0 |
PopMatters
There’s no doubt that Electric Lines will be the basis for some excellent live sets. But as an album, most of these songs offer too little innovation, too little variation, and too little life
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