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Universal acclaim- based on 119 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 102 out of 119
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Mixed: 10 out of 119
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Negative: 7 out of 119
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Sep 23, 2014
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Jan 12, 2015Perfume is really a Genius and he show it in this album. So creative, unique and celestial. He can be what he wants around screams and whisperings, feelings and reactions. He's really the best male artist that released an album on 2014.
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Sep 24, 2014The best album of the year so far. Lyrically powerful and straightforward. Not for right wing limited minds but likely to be cherrished by anybody else. The piano from earlier works now supported with synth arrangements and Adrian Utley (Portishead!) help. No family is safe when I sashay...
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Sep 23, 2014honestly it felt kinda empty for me, it had it's moments but it was forced for me but it deserves a 6 from me ..................................................................
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Sep 28, 2014I don't really get it. I mean Perfume Genius have always shown restraint, which is unique in itself these days, and the space and emptiness of this album is quite refreshing. But only really on the clsoing track is there anything to really grasp onto in terms of a melody, some soul and a drumbeat. It may be my favourite album after a few more plays but right now it comes across as very overrated.
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Oct 29, 2015none of it deems too surprising, in spite of its experimental production and almost the pure stretch to differentiation Perfume Genius clearly wishes to make, but non of it is bad either, there are emotional and memorable moments
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Oct 15, 2014
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Sep 28, 2014
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Sep 29, 2014
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Sep 28, 2014Not a rip off, but very close to the great Mark Hollis. So, not as original as someone might think. PG is largely overrated. It's just a decent album.
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Jan 7, 2015
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Jan 3, 2015One of the best albums of 2014 and one of the best albums of all time!
It is amazing.
There are some slow heartbreaking songs, fast songs, fun songs... And.. the whole album is only 32-33 minutes.
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Jan 23, 2021This album sounds just like the kind of artistic liberation we expect from an artist that never quite lives up to the expectations of creativity, but actually living up to them. This songs feel pure Perfume Genius, like no one else could make them, so props to that.
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Jul 31, 2017
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Feb 24, 2022best album . Lyrically powerful and straightforward. Not for right wing limited minds but likely to be cherrished by anybody else. The piano from earlier works now supported with synth arrangements and Adrian Utley (Portishead!) help. No family is safe when I sashay
Awards & Rankings
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Nov 26, 2014He lacks the humour, more explicit angst and emotional confidence of John Grant and lacks Garneau's devotion to melodrama and pop. He is hardly Stephin Merritt. He exists independently as a cultural explorer as well as simply a very fine, very sensitive songwriter.
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MagnetNov 12, 2014Too Bright highlights the moments of buoyancy that dotted his first two outings--both of which sounded nothing if not dour on first listen--and setting the stage for Hadress as one off the most compelling new American songwriters of the last half-decade. [No. 115, p.61]
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MojoNov 7, 2014It is a deeply odd but consistently compelling work. [Nov 2014, p.98]