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- Summary: The fifth full-length studio release for the Brooklyn indie-pop duo is their first on Harvest Records.
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- Record Label: Harvest
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 2 out of 11
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Mixed: 9 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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Apr 9, 2015New Glow isn't start-to-finish fizz. The downbeat "I See Ya" offers some contrast as an emotional album closer, with Johnson acknowledging those who may not be present but still matter. Otherwise, however, you can drop the needle pretty much anywhere else on the record and land right back in the party.
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Alternative PressApr 6, 2015This 10-song effort will almost surely be a part of the soundtrack powering every block party, barbecue, summer shindig--and certainly toward the dance floor. [May 2015, p.98]
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Apr 28, 2015New Glow has its moments, but you won't find it on many EOTY lists.
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Apr 6, 2015The entire album has a general lack of excitement that could be Matt and Kim mailing it in, or taking one step too far toward the pop mainstream and losing the punkish edge that made their music pop like bubbles in a bottle of shaken-up soda.
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Apr 14, 2015New Glow may be Matt & Kim’s most polished album, but their songwriting has never been more amateurish.
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Apr 7, 2015On New Glow, they’ve either finally dumbed things down too much, or simply reached the end of where this rudimentary songwriting can take them.
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Apr 13, 2015If New Glow is anything to go by, the creative well seems to be starting to run dry.
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Positive: 0 out of 1
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Mixed: 1 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Apr 16, 2015
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