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Alfred Soto: From the neo-retro hum of the “Simon Says” keyboards to the triumphalist sentiment, this has got cult classic written all over it. To my ears it comes up short. Thin and repressed, the chorus matches the vocals.
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Pete Baran: Woo-ooo-oo-ooh. It means nothing but signifies everything in this arms-in-the-air, cooler-than-thou anthem. It’s a five-year throwback in many ways, glitchy, Scando, precision bleeping. But it’s coming out without much else like it knocking around and, unlike many of its progenitors, actually sounds like everyone was having fun making it.
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Ian Mathers: It’s better than “Manners,” but it’s still rather anonymous; the production is kind of needlessly busy, the chorus doesn’t do much, and I think at one point they’re trying to justify every blurry party photo on Facebook. As unimpressed as I’ve been with both Icona Pop songs we’ve covered, they’re not far from doing something interesting; they just need to modulate things a little. That’s not going to help what is maybe the dumbest video I’ve seen in a while, though.
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Alex Ostroff: Most of “Nights Like This” is a bit brash and stompy for my taste — triumphal electro pop always seems more lumbering than exhilarating to me. Underneath the big drums, though, there’s this lovely video-game synth noise playing around at 0:30 and elsewhere in minor key harmonies. In fact, the entire shifting landscape of electronic burbles feels like it’s cobbled together from a hodgepodge of spare parts. Given the option, I’d like to ditch the Katy Perry-esque vocal hiccups, the MGMT-style children’s chorus and the accompanying thumpa-thumpa, and keep everything that sounds like the squiggly glitchy coda.
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Katherine St Asaph: Give this to the right kids and the right blogs, and they’ll make that whoa-oh chorus as anthemic as anything that’s come before it. They’ll also turn Icona Pop into a group not for me, but this is squelchy and strange enough that if evolution’s happening, this is only an intermediate step.
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Iain Mew: I love the line “Me and my friends grown tall, we make this city small”. It’s such a great image. They do a good job of following through on the sense of power in it as well, with thick layers of bloopy synths and a chorus of some force.
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Brad Shoup: “We make big cities small” could be a generation’s cross-stitch. Radio people, mall-punks, glam kids, Mouseketeers: Icona Pop’s got a little something for everyone with a giant bass squelchworm besides. It’s like a black-light party in an arcade console. I can’t wait for the Seacrest interview on American Top 40.
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