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Jul 30, 2013It is a wonderful debut effort, and all of the buzz and the attention they have garnered up to this point is likely only the beginning for AlunaGeorge.
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Jul 29, 2013Despite the part-compilation/part-extras makeup, this is one of the year's more enjoyable debuts.
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Jul 30, 2013Moving from urgent dance-pop (“Bad Idea”), to minimalist pillow talk (“Friends to Lovers”), to bassy underground undertows (“Lost and Found”), Body Music is the sound of AlunaGeorge just getting started--and they could go anywhere from here.
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Jul 16, 2013Reid’s soundtrack is vibrant, but it can’t save the album from its own tedium.
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Jul 30, 2013Their sound is more pop than R&B or electronic, more domestic than futuristic, and more formulaic than innovative. But it works for them. It’s accessible electro-pop music that you can’t help but be smitten with.
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Jul 29, 2013One of the problems Body Music faces is that it’s an album supporting a string of pre-processed singles.
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Jul 26, 2013Aluna and George balance each other in the perfect see-saw, and Body Music is an absolute playground of pop music.
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Jul 29, 2013As a a slice of accomplished, sophisticated urban pop you'll find none finer this summer.
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Jul 30, 2013AlunaGeorge have done the impossible with Body Music: they've made the dynamic, progressive pop album we all hoped for.
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Jul 29, 2013Body Music lacks both the pace and range required to sustain repeated listens, and rests too heavily on one--and even two-year old singles to bolster its overall quality.
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Jul 16, 2013AlunaGeorge could well be challenging old touring partners Disclosure for pop crossover supremacy this summer.
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MojoAug 13, 2013Her candy floss-flavoured cough syrup vocals will be a little sweet for some tastes on first hearing, but when backed up with an acid lyrical kick, the overall effect is devastatingly insidious. [Sep 2013, p.95]
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Jul 23, 2013As with many debuts, AlunaGeorge’s album has remarkable highs but is tempered by a few weaker moments.
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Jul 29, 2013Not only do his [Reid's] noises fail to carry the songs, he often loses the songs altogether. They drift away from him when he should be dominating them. And this album is a missed opportunity.
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Sep 9, 2013It’s well done, fun to listen to, and a damn sight better than 90% of other pop music right now, yet you couldn’t really describe it as essential.
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Aug 15, 2013At 14 tracks (19 on the deluxe), Body Music feels overlong for a debut, but she’s melodic enough to captivate even when Reid’s hissing minimalism and spastic beats start to feel warmed over.
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Jul 31, 2013Body Music shows R&B continuing to expand its scope, stealing the cues of hip-hop and electronic music, which draw strength from their omnivorous appetites.
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Jul 29, 2013There's not much wrong with Body Music, but its constellation of contemporary electro-pop elements can sometimes feel too slick for its own good.
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Aug 7, 2013Body Music is thus an intelligent hot pot of sounds all meshed together flawlessly, and intelligently; a breath of fresh air.
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Jul 29, 2013Though Body Music contains only one true misfire (the immediately forgettable “Kaleidoscope Love”), the album’s strongest tracks glow so bright that fine songs such as “Diver,” “Lost and Found” and “Bad Idea” can get lost in their shadow, at least on early listens.
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Q MagazineJul 16, 2013A few pop-soul cliches creep into the album's cluttered middle section. But the rest is 21-st-century electronic pop delivered with style and ambition. [Aug 2013, p.106]
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Aug 27, 2013While Aluna Francis sings tart kiss-offs to foolish exes, producer George Reid keeps the digital activity as stylish and minimalist as a Helmut Lang showroom.
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Jul 29, 2013Body Music, the full-length debut from British duo AlunaGeorge, could have made an excellent EP.
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Aug 6, 2013AlunaGeorge are a pop act at heart, with most of this debut’s songs anchored to a radio-friendly chorus.
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Jul 25, 2013Body Music sounds like a potential hit, rather than an intriguing curiosity.
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Jul 26, 2013The combination works best on the single Attracting Flies; less engaging is the descent to playground chanting on Best Be Believing.
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Jul 29, 2013It's an assured collection of pure pop with an independent sensibility, equal parts Kylie and The XX.
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Jul 26, 2013It’s a record certainly fine enough to ensure the pairing will have no issues sprinting to the upper echelons of pop aristocracy.
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Jul 29, 2013Francis glides along, deliciously unresolved about a relationship. The hype was not wrong.
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Aug 6, 2013On the whole Body Music's tracks feel like little more than fairly unimaginative collage pieces: fifteen years of pop trends, compressed into one very indistinct style.
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Jul 29, 2013AlunaGeorge have built a happy marriage out of the slick and the smart, and with Body Music, they just might manage the trick of making everyone else--from old fans to new ones; from critics to their record labels--happy too.
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UncutJul 16, 2013Body Music has the feel of an album rushed out for the summer. [Aug 2013, p.67]
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Jul 31, 2013They ooze a confidence that marries the seductive mews of Aaliyah with something just slightly sinister. It's a combination that could easily sound forced, but Francis has mastered the trick of adding a nuance to her purrs that makes them intoxicating.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 53 out of 61
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Mixed: 7 out of 61
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Negative: 1 out of 61
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