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May 10, 2019Though Cues features some of their most accomplished songs yet, their eagerness to please both sides (not to mention a woeful Beck cameo on the dub-reggae fusion of Night Running) make for a sometimes coldly calculating listen.
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Classic Rock MagazineMay 3, 2019Social Cues feels like the sound of a great band in desperate need of some down time. [Jun 2019, p.88]
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Apr 17, 2019The band’s continuing experimentation with studio personnel, producers, influences, and ranges of emotion should be applauded. But a little more grit in the riffs would be nice.
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Q MagazineApr 16, 2019While it doesn't measure up to such great break-up albums as Beck's Sea Change or Blur's 13, Social Cues still possesses emotional heft. [June 2019, p.108]
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Apr 17, 2019The underlying intensity to their music on previous records is stripped away, leaving in its wake a bland and largely forgettable experience.
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Apr 19, 2019‘Social Cues’ is a study in US radio - or so it seems, each song a suitable soundtrack to faceless car journeys along nondescript roads: think Imagine Dragons in leather jackets and ripped jeans, if you will.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 69 out of 77
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Mixed: 7 out of 77
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Negative: 1 out of 77
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Apr 24, 2019
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Apr 19, 2019Melancholy. Sick grooves. You'll want to dance with your sadness with this one.
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Apr 19, 2019