And to round out our theme day, Neon Sk… darn.

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Alfred Soto: A decade since “Move Ya Body” and the duo returns with a quiet electronic sliver of a track that owes as much to Roisin Murphy as it does to Disclosure. Anonymous and insinuating, like “Move Ya Body,” but I’ll be damned if it crosses over. 
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Josh Love: Inexcusably, I gave “Move Ya Body” a [5] 11 years ago (I’m not linking to it because, holy shit, I was a chode when I was 23, though I’m gonna tell myself we were all a lot less self-aware on the Internet back then). I feel like I owe Nina Sky a [10] simply as reparations, but unfortunately I don’t think “Forever” will prove to be quite so deathless. Still, it hits the same insouciant sweet spot as its decade-old predecessor, proving the Albino twins were cooler than me then and still are.
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Micha Cavaseno: Nina Sky might be one of the greatest examples of the Internet ruining something. For years, they were a delightfully (never quite in key) R&B duo with flourishes into hip-hop and reggaeton who were never in key, never amazingly complex, but nonetheless worked. In all seriousness, they should’ve just had “Bullshit” flop, kept a little bit of buzz off “Keep It Going Louder” and that would be that. But post-Carolan/ILM zombiefication turned these girls into perennially struggling alt-Divas of the “cool kids club.” Much like how KMS appeared to get shackled in blogosphere hell’s torments, we see a group struggling to redefine themselves based on people who already have a fucked-up impression of them, rather than having fun. Because do you want to dance to this? Are you having fun? 
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Katherine St Asaph: A desperate dance riff like Jeremih’s “Tonight Belongs to U,” voices like cold air over metal, relentless forward-downward movement driven by a feeling that isn’t sexual anymore, or even quite desire: “this energy, it must be fed.” It’s supernatural, visceral. In the moment nothing will ruin your life faster than that feeling, or live up to it; in the moment these songs sound perfect, neon and whip-firm in your grasp. Outside the moment, they still sound seductively, dangerously perfect. I have spent years trying not to be so afflicted again. Songs like this will do me in.
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Ramzi Awn: Nicole and Natalie do a good job of creating new sounds, but “Forever” fails to string them together cohesively. The track has the faint ring of a single released too early.     
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Mo Kim: These gals promised me something worthy of eternity and left me with sub-Ark Music Factory synths and lines that were already empty before they were CTRL+Cd and Vd into the never-ending void. Makes me want to fall asleep, forever.
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Brad Shoup: Croaking wood and creaking springs: it really localizes the moment. 
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Will Adams: Finally, their production has advanced to an acceptable level above the horridly cheap releases from the past. On the whole “Forever” is pretty average (though the panned hi hat skitters are a great touch), but this is the closest they’ve come to recapturing their initial spark yet.
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