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10.0
95380
10.0 |
A.V. Club
Sylvan Esso subverts and embraces the pop world on a brilliant second album
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9.0
95298
9.0 |
Gig Soup
Their latest masterpiece release
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8.0
95295
8.0 |
Clash
Deserves your attention and is a perfect example of a group accomplishing and exceeding their full potential
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8.0
95296
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The cool café-ready vibes have been replaced by weightier production that’s suited more for the club; techno-inspired beats intricately and lusciously built atop one another
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8.0
95300
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
While the pair's 2014 self-titled debut hinted at notions of pop culture as a crutch, describing television as offering an unhealthy sense of “home” and smartphones providing ersatz companionship, What Now takes that theme a step further
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8.0
95301
8.0 |
Uncut
This follow-up to their 2014 debut blends antique-sounding folk tracks with glossier electronic numbers. Print edition only
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8.0
95446
8.0 |
The Observer
Purposeful pop bangers
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8.0
95515
8.0 |
The 405
What Now contemplates private change of circumstance and personhood with pathos, kindness, and humour, and bangs fervidly in the process
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8.0
95358
8.0 |
Exclaim
What Now is accessible in every sense of the word, but after several spins, it'll pull you much deeper than one might initially think
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7.7
95294
7.7 |
Earbuddy
Sylvan Esso answer What Now with bigger and better songs than their debut
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7.5
95324
7.5 |
Under The Radar
Sylvan Esso fans will fall deeper in love with the duo on this second album, while its casual onlookers won't be able to unlock their gaze
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7.5
95299
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
It swings between biting and sublime, with occasional moments of triteness; but when Meath and Sanborn get it right, they get it very, very right
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7.4
95361
7.4 |
Paste Magazine
The fuller, darker, and more chaotic sound of What Now is appropriate.
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7.2
95320
7.2 |
Pitchfork
Offers a biting, withering take on pop music, full of crisp humor while still finding real moments of tenderness
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6.0
95373
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Fusing folk sensibilities with electronic soundscapes
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6.0
95376
6.0 |
The Guardian
Peppy, irreverent bleep-pop for coffee lovers
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6.0
95579
6.0 |
God Is In The TV
It’s when Sylvan Esso embrace their hipster side they can be attention-grabbing intriguing
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6.0
95297
6.0 |
The Skinny
What Now reckons with the popularity, and ensuing normalisation, of their sound
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6.0
95302
6.0 |
Q
it's not without charm, but you might find yourself wanting to like What Now more than you actually do. Print edition only
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6.0
95317
6.0 |
Mojo
North Carolina duo's second stab at modernist pop. Print edition only
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