Planet mod : Brit soul, R&B and freakbeat from the Shel Talmy vaults
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AllMusic
2018
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Timothy Monger
2018
"If Modern Studies' winsome debut documented their genesis and first blush of pooled creativity, the Scottish chamber pop quartet's follow-up, Welcome Strangers, announces the full might of their communal power ... More often than not, Scott and St. John share lead vocals, regardless of which one wrote the song, further adding to Modern Studies' collective feel of creative unity. Somehow more sophisticated and savage, Welcome Strangers is quite a leap from the bucolic folk of their debut and quite a bit more exciting too".
PopMatters
d. 4. June 2018
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Richard Driver
d. 4. June 2018
"Modern Studies offer a beautiful document with Welcome Strangers, an album that is atmospheric, dramatic, and in its conclusion conveys a cinematic quality that highlights the closeness felt between each track and by the band themselves".
The quietus
d. 4. June 2018
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Nicola Meighan
d. 4. June 2018
"Nature provides a home for Welcome Strangers. It offers shelter, and sheds vital warmth - and light - in times of uncertainty. It's the bedrock of this heady compendium of haunted disco lullabies for foggy urban woodland raves and psychotropic campfire sing-alongs. They're welcome indeed, these strange and lovely field studies into the lure of the distance, the pull of the sky, the time we have (and that we've lost), the seeds we sow, the joy of dancing under the moonlight, the serious moonlight".