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Jun 12, 2013Kodaline illustrate all the ingredients for greatness, with many a swooning chorus to invoke a thousand festival lighters held aloft.
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Jun 20, 2013With time, greater individuality will come. Right now, this is an accomplished and emotive statement of intent, cinematic in scope and able to raise goose bumps at will.
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Jun 12, 2013This is boy band material dressed up in an indie band’s clothes.
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Jun 12, 2013As real big-bucks contenders, Kodaline aren’t quite there yet. But as a debut, In A Perfect World manages to find its feet with ease.
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Oct 8, 2013The album is just full of songs that don’t hit and seemingly don’t even try.
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Q MagazineJun 12, 2013Entirely meritless. [Apr 2013, p.104]
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Jun 20, 2013All told, there's a lot of bodice-ripping emotion to take in, and it's this, rather than the lack of original ideas, that makes In a Perfect World hard to take in large doses.
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Jun 14, 2013Kodaline offer a musical barometer of bankable current rock trends, but display scant originality on this debut album.
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Jun 17, 2013For all their stadium uplift and notionally anthemic choruses, they never deliver a hook or melodic sucker punch that really floors you.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 39 out of 58
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Mixed: 4 out of 58
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Negative: 15 out of 58
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