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9.1
98295
9.1 |
A.V. Club
Her music may have emerged from a period of great turmoil, but, in the process, she’s found a new path forward
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8.0
98302
8.0 |
All Music
Cage Tropical isn't a pastiche and it isn't a joke, and if it had come out in 1985 - and it seems like it should have - it would be one of the classic albums of the era, right up there with Crocodiles or Hounds of Love
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8.0
98318
8.0 |
The Skinny
Everything’s shrouded in enough metaphor to ensure that we never really see much of Rose the person, and instead spend the album’s forty-ish minutes with Rose the carefully-crafted, self-styled pop star
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8.0
98345
8.0 |
The FT
Self-doubting sentiment set in richly layered dream-pop, evoking feelings of sweet surrender not anxiety
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7.7
98322
7.7 |
Pitchfork
With subtle tweaks to her sound, Frankie Rose shows that her glossy new-wave style can be a way of cutting through the murk to find clarity
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7.5
98313
7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Cage Tropical presents an uninhibited Frankie Rose, letting loose and crafting music organically and unabashedly
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7.0
98311
7.0 |
The 405
Ultimately, despite its broodier and moodier efforts, Cage Tropical never really hits the heights of Interstellar
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7.0
98306
7.0 |
Paste Magazine
In paranormal terms, Cage Tropical is an elegant ghost that slips into your dreams and leaves you with only vague memories of the experience. That would be fine if Frankie weren’t so close to doing something really haunting
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7.0
98326
7.0 |
Exclaim
A welcome return from an artist that clearly has more to say
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7.0
98328
7.0 |
Under The Radar
While this doesn't scale the heights of Interstellar, it's still a very good album from a fantastic artist. It's nice to have her back!
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6.2
98309
6.2 |
Earbuddy
Frankie Rose gets lost in LA but finds herself again in Brooklyn on Cage Tropical
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6.0
98289
6.0 |
The Irish Times
The whole thing just about tips the right side of eccentricity
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6.0
98292
6.0 |
The Guardian
Upbeat shoegaze from indie stalwart
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6.0
98325
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Listen too long to the likes of Cage Tropical, and the messy, sticky, irrelevant, giddy, and downright terrifying business of consummation will slip past your fingers unrecognised
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