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Mystery Hour

Pavo Pavo

Mystery Hour

Second album from the classically-trained Brooklyn-based indie pop quintet

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Bella Union
UK Release date
25/01/2019
US Release date
25/01/2019
  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    Bringing emotional weight and measured playfulness to every song while maintaining a fascinating, cosmic soundscape, it's an album that lingers
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  2. 8.0 |   Q

    It might be falling apart, but it comes together beautifully. Print edition only

  3. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    This baroque pop record is pleasant and roomy, but peer inside to find a fragmented portrait of heartbreak shared by the band’s cofounders
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  4. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Clearly still the current masters of the messy intersection between classical, disco, jazz and baroque, Pavo Pavo offer us a musically sophisticated, urbane alternative to the traditional break-up album, with as much to forget as there is to love
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  5. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Bagg's dreamy soprano, layers of melodic synths and soaring strings cast a dramatically romantic sheen over their pain. Print edition only

  6. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Pavo Pavo's Mystery Hour captures the highs and lows of love by fluctuating between sparse sorrow and luscious excitement
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  7. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    While a lot of this album is sonically in the terrain of the new psychedelia, it is emotionally accessible to anyone
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  8. 6.0 |   Mojo

    An album which, fittingly considering its backstory, does not quite hang together. Print edition only


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