In a dream

"Maclean is a masterful synth programmer but not a singular one, and so sometimes In A Dream resembles those beautifully built urban townhouses, trading sturdiness for creativity and sapping some of the fun in the process. That's the harshest grenade you can throw at In A Dream, though: it's too comfortable and robust. When the duo come in for the requisite 10-minute, album-closing jam, it feels earned, and it's motive and charming enough not to bore. In A Dream is Maclean and Whang's most fruitful, balanced partnership, and if it fails to truly make a star out of either of them, it cements them as the kind of ever-evolving collaboration DFA was built on".

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"The whole album is a melancholic joy that's full of temperature contrasts (cold synths and warm emotions meeting warm synths and detached vocals), songs that comfort and inspire, and sounds that wrap their analog tendrils around the listener's brain the way only the best synth pop can. While the album may not have a classic dancefloor jam like Future Will Come's "Happy House," and their moment of cultural import may have come and gone, this is the Juan MacLean's best record yet".

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