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75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 20
  2. Negative: 0 out of 20
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  1. Mar 27, 2015
    80
    The Scene Between isn't the Go! Team's best, but it is an impressive new start that consolidates most of their strengths in a bright shiny ball and sends the band shooting off in a brilliant new-ish direction.
  2. Mar 24, 2015
    70
    A Go! Team album that works by evoking their past yet looking optimistic towards the future.
  3. Magnet
    Apr 15, 2015
    80
    The Scene Between is another breathless, time-collapsing rush of dayglo, retro, lo-fi indie spunk, cutting back on the hip-hop inflections, schoolyard chants and cut-and-paste sample collage to focus squarely on melody. [No. 119, p.55]
  4. Mojo
    Mar 19, 2015
    80
    Kaleidoscopic yet reassuringly familiar to '80s indie fans. [Apr 2015, p.98]
  5. 70
    Frenzied excitement still prevails.
  6. Mar 23, 2015
    72
    It’s a cohesive listen that doesn't quite translate into a cohesive statement of purpose.
  7. 83
    All in all, Parton and his collaborators cumulate a muscular and even touching evocation of simply being rattled by the rush--happily.
  8. Q Magazine
    Mar 17, 2015
    80
    It all works rather well. [Apr 2015, p.102]
  9. Sep 18, 2015
    80
    Ian Parton's picked up Young Guv’s gauntlet and made the power-pop album of the year.
  10. Apr 3, 2015
    75
    You will hear better records than The Scene Between this year; none will put a bigger smile on your face.
  11. Mar 24, 2015
    91
    Despite his plunderphonic techniques, he’s a classic pop songwriter, and The Scene Between comes awfully close to being a classic pop album.
  12. Mar 26, 2015
    80
    A light, entertaining album.
  13. 75
    Parton did exactly as he set out to do, bridging a self-recognized gap in his songwriting habits to produce a melodically dense record packed with insatiable hooks with minimal sacrifice to the band's signature sense of nostalgia-infused momentum.
  14. Uncut
    Mar 17, 2015
    70
    If it all seems a little too familiar, the hooks here are undeniable. [Apr 2015, p.76]

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