Cuddly Swedes launch themselves on the mainstream…

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Doug Robertson: Songs made in the bedroom are sometimes best kept in there. What has a sweet frailty and a pleasing naivety when heard within the confines of your house can be destroyed by the harsh glare of reality’s light.
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Asher Steinberg: Some words I’ve seen used to describe this romantic synth explosion are “heavenly dream-pop,” “ethereal,” “fragile thing of beauty,” “brilliant,” and “thumping.” Me, I prefer “creepy breathy-voiced dudes share Disney Channel-pop sentiments over limp electro backing.”
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Jer Fairall: So utterly dreamy in the lead up to the chorus, with its twinkling synths and the boys’ charmingly unaffected ESL delivery, that I’m genuinely crestfallen when the big, faceless all-purpose Euro club riff kicks in. Rather than steamrolling the rest of the song in its wake, though, said riff turns out to be little more than an occasional rude interruption, and the song manages to recover from it nicely each and every time. I quite like this, then, but I’m still left wondering at what could have been had these guys trusted their best instincts a bit more than their commercial ones.
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Ian Mathers: Too restrained for its own good. “Nova” needs to either relax back into its initial reverie, or take things up another notch, and really, either would suffice.
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Alex Ostroff: Pleasant enough, and it has a killer riff, but it just doesn’t connect. ‘Into the Clouds‘ was a more humble track, not built for world-conquering, but ‘Nova’ feels anonymous. It’s likely to be enjoyed by more people, but remembered by significantly fewer.
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Alfred Soto: Half a beat faster, and this thing would have gone supernova. In its present form this Swedish electrofuzz trifle is merely cute in a teen slow dance kind of way.
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Iain Mew: Even by Scandinavian electropop standards, those are some amazingly wimpy and ineffective vocals. Luckily the sense that they’re only just clinging on over all of the lovely electronic burbling and pulsing is a decent fit to the needy longing of the song, but it still feels like actually praising this is an act of sympathy as much as approval.
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