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Generally favorable reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
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  1. 80
    He’s made an engrossing, highly original album with disarmingly simple tools.
  2. Jul 15, 2013
    80
    Outlines are blurred between post-punk, rave and a very modern psychedelia; brushing between textures and emotions with skillful subtlety and provoking sincere disappointment.
  3. Jul 9, 2013
    80
    In Perfect View, Lust For Youth have immersed fuzzed-up ’80s synthpop in an unnerving ambience, infused the whole thing with shades of house and come up with an album that’s a challenge, but a completely mesmerising one.
  4. Jun 18, 2013
    70
    Norrvide strips the project to its barest essentials and allows listeners a chance to really hear the perpetually uneasy emotions at its core.
  5. Jun 18, 2013
    70
    It’s bleak music conjured from machine rather than man, but Norvidde succeeds just as wholeheartedly as his friends and countrymen as conjuring the bitter darkness that’s coming to define the region.
  6. Jun 18, 2013
    69
    His is the ambient music of someone else's party, happening far away from where you are, and the distance is part of the allure.
  7. Aug 12, 2013
    60
    Although it’s a dark, drifting ride, Perfect View makes other recent minimal synth albums (Chromatics’ Kill For Love was so flat I haven’t heard it since last September, and I still feel bored) look positively one-dimensional in comparison, and does it in a third of the time.
  8. Q Magazine
    Jul 10, 2013
    60
    Oddly compelling, even if the coldwave atmosphere seldom rises above freezing-point. [Aug 2013, p.101]
  9. Jun 18, 2013
    50
    Although the layers of sounds within each song are well arranged, the sounds themselves aren’t very original and each song generally sounds similar to the last.

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