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Jun 4, 2015Diplo’s electro-dancehall project scored a Top 40 hit in 2015 with the buoyant “Lean On.” Those good vibes continue on Peace.
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Jun 22, 2015Consider it the slow and softer Major Lazer album that's built for headphone listening, but most of all, consider it.
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MagnetJun 8, 2015The best cuts here happen to be those hewing closer to Major Lazer's wake-and-bake dancehall origins. [No. 121, p.57]
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Jun 5, 2015Peace Is the Mission soars on the strength of sticky melodies sung by a unique combo of pop divas and West Indian vocalists.
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Jun 1, 2015It’s so ludicrously colourful and loud and just the right side of ridiculous and whatever the mission may be, domination is the likely result.
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Jun 3, 2015There is no doubt Peace Is the Mission will suffer some criticism from dancehall purists, those exhausted by EDM and people who hate Diplo (a hate that he has certainly worked overtime to earn), but their maturation is palpable across the album's nine tracks.
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UncutJun 24, 2015The cartoonish skank of "Too Original" is business as usual, but Peace Is The Mission is often reflective. [Aug 2015, p.76]
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Jun 15, 2015Evaluating it across his whole catalog, this occupies the second-tier below uncopyable classics that he churned out in the beginning of the 2000s. While that may be an unfair standard to hold any artist to, Peace Is the Mission provides the comforting thesis: if peace can be achieved by dancing, this is the album to spin.
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Jun 2, 2015It's hard to think of anyone else who could bring so much together inside one gigantic DJ tent and make it all flow so well.
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Jun 1, 2015There's nothing completely new here, but fans are sure to be satisfied, at the very least, until the collective's next album arrives.
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Jul 23, 2015The whole thing is a little cheap, but clever, making it so much fun to be on the receiving end.
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MojoJul 6, 2015Much of the remainder, however, plays a depressingly straight bat with mainstream thrills. [Aug 2015, p.96]
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Q MagazineJun 2, 2015Peace Is The Mission feels like too much of a splurge to be enjoyable right through. [Jul 2015, p.109]
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Jun 2, 2015Peace Is The Mission is equal parts tepid and garrulous, making it hard to get an overall read on this project. Probably best to not overthink it.
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Jun 1, 2015The more restrained moments, such as hit single Lean On, nicely accentuate the crazed moombahton intensity of tracks such as Blaze up the Fire.
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Jun 4, 2015Diplo and Co. threw everything at the wall and turned around, pretending it stuck when all that’s really left is the splatter from undercooked leftovers.
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Jun 2, 2015The third studio album from Major Lazer, Diplo's project inspired by Jamaican dancehall music, features a few hot tracks and a few so tepid that we need reminders about what made Diplo interesting in the first place.
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Jun 4, 2015The fun here is manufactured beyond belief, sometimes for better, but more often for worse.
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Jul 21, 2015Some of the material threatens to drown in a mire of painfully bland songwriting and sleepwalking guest appearances.
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Jun 11, 2015There are some glimmers of pop gold.... But those moments are overshadowed by dated cheeseball synth presets, uninspired choruses, goofy samples and clunky rhythm programming.
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Jun 1, 2015This sound is now not only jaded--though still remarkably popular--but its ubiquity serves as a reminder of how sights have lowered since Major Lazer was first conceived.
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Positive: 44 out of 58
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Mixed: 10 out of 58
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Negative: 4 out of 58
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Jan 23, 2021