Season High
by Little Dragon
Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
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  1. AllMusic
    May 9, 2017
    50
    The album is deficient in emotional depth and congeals into a mass of adequate mood music. It doesn't offer much more once the themes--including romantic fulfillment, solace, and longing, with a little materialistic frivolity, eyelash batting, and cutting loose--come into sharper focus.
  2. Clash Music
    Apr 21, 2017
    60
    Season High is a pleasant ride--a breezy escapade through dreamlands and ultraviolet meadows. It’s a sometimes sickly-sweet concoction that’ll leave you once or twice with the feeling of overindulgence.
  3. Consequence
    Apr 12, 2017
    50
    There are flashes of a more invigorating band underneath, but Season High ultimately ends up the kind of record for festival attendees to pleasantly dance along to while sipping their drinks waiting for the headliner.
  5. No Ripcord
    Apr 18, 2017
    50
    While Season High has its showstopping moments, as a whole it tries to cram in too many ideas into a variety of disjointed themes.
  6. Pitchfork
    Apr 14, 2017
    56
    It's so clinical that it works better as an audition reel for their next round of features than it does its own statement.
  7. Q Magazine
    Apr 12, 2017
    60
    Tracks such as Celebrate and Push lack the euphoric uplift necessary for dancefloor dominance, while the relationship angst hinted at in strobe Light comes masked behind a dreamy production gauze. When they hit the sweet spot, however, the results are sublime. [Jun 2017, p.110]
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  8. The Guardian
    Apr 13, 2017
    60
    For all of its escapist ambition, Season High’s genre-hopping feels more like a showcase for Little Dragon’s pop competence than the sound of a group swept up in instinctive creativity.
  9. The Independent (UK)
    Apr 12, 2017
    60
    Their minimalist aesthetic can sometimes work against them, as on the spartan, diffident “The Pop Life”, but it’s tempered by a winning romanticism on “Butterflies”, where the fluttering keyboards evoke a fantasy of a dead soul becoming a butterfly, one of “a thousand souls swarming”.
  10. The Observer (UK)
    Apr 17, 2017
    60
    The beats toughen up with the second half bangers Strobe Light and Push, on an album that lyrically does what it says on the tin.
  11. Uncut
    Apr 20, 2017
    60
    What once seemed an aesthetic springboard for the band to make truly great music now seems rather like retreading old ground. [Jun 2017, p.33]
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User Score
8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. DavidWasHere
    Nov 6, 2017
    7
    I thought it was a fun album. Sure it isn't as adventurous as their past records and it is rather spotty at times, but the unique textures andI thought it was a fun album. Sure it isn't as adventurous as their past records and it is rather spotty at times, but the unique textures and Yukimi Nagano's vocals and performance is as dynamic and awe-inspiring as ever, it's a fun listen for fans of the band… Full Review »
  2. vishu_ra0
    Apr 22, 2017
    6
    'Season High' doesn't reach as "high" expectations as their critically acclaimed 'Nabuma Rubberband' did, but it doesn't entirely disappoint.'Season High' doesn't reach as "high" expectations as their critically acclaimed 'Nabuma Rubberband' did, but it doesn't entirely disappoint. Most of the tracks have a very funk-disco-indie vibe to it, though 'Butterflies' is probably the only track that stands apart from the rest and could be said to be the best song on the album.
    Other favorites from the album include: High & Celebrate    … Full Review »
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