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Rolling StoneAug 1, 2024Forwarding the formula that worked on "Heat Waves" fails to render a similarly catchy song this time out, which means harried, heartsick overreaches like "How I Learned To Love The Bomb" and "On The Run" end up drifting and meandering inti a dolefully ambiguous musical and emotional middle distance. [Jul/Aug 2024, p.120]
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Jul 22, 2024Inoffensive music Iike this is an affront to the very idea of what makes music so worthy of obsession and analysis. It's the antithesis of self-expression; this ain't no victimless crime. For the first time, I understand the term: this is pure co-worker music.
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Jul 19, 2024Lacking the kind of big hooks that anchored Heat Waves, it doesn’t feel eclectic so much as nonspecific.
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Jul 19, 2024There are odd moments that cut through – there’s a pleasingly succinct guitar solo on opener Show Pony, and A Tear in Space (Airlock) does a nice line in polite euphoria – but as a whole this is very much a case of all surface, no feeling.