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Apr 21, 2017Season High is a pleasant ride--a breezy escapade through dreamlands and ultraviolet meadows. It’s a sometimes sickly-sweet concoction that’ll leave you once or twice with the feeling of overindulgence.
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UncutApr 20, 2017What once seemed an aesthetic springboard for the band to make truly great music now seems rather like retreading old ground. [Jun 2017, p.33]
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Apr 17, 2017The beats toughen up with the second half bangers Strobe Light and Push, on an album that lyrically does what it says on the tin.
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Apr 13, 2017For all of its escapist ambition, Season High’s genre-hopping feels more like a showcase for Little Dragon’s pop competence than the sound of a group swept up in instinctive creativity.
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Q MagazineApr 12, 2017Tracks such as Celebrate and Push lack the euphoric uplift necessary for dancefloor dominance, while the relationship angst hinted at in strobe Light comes masked behind a dreamy production gauze. When they hit the sweet spot, however, the results are sublime. [Jun 2017, p.110]
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Apr 12, 2017Their minimalist aesthetic can sometimes work against them, as on the spartan, diffident “The Pop Life”, but it’s tempered by a winning romanticism on “Butterflies”, where the fluttering keyboards evoke a fantasy of a dead soul becoming a butterfly, one of “a thousand souls swarming”.
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Apr 14, 2017It's so clinical that it works better as an audition reel for their next round of features than it does its own statement.
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May 9, 2017The album is deficient in emotional depth and congeals into a mass of adequate mood music. It doesn't offer much more once the themes--including romantic fulfillment, solace, and longing, with a little materialistic frivolity, eyelash batting, and cutting loose--come into sharper focus.
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Apr 18, 2017While Season High has its showstopping moments, as a whole it tries to cram in too many ideas into a variety of disjointed themes.
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Apr 12, 2017There are flashes of a more invigorating band underneath, but Season High ultimately ends up the kind of record for festival attendees to pleasantly dance along to while sipping their drinks waiting for the headliner.
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Positive: 11 out of 14
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Mixed: 3 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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