In colour
Jamie XX
Emneord
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Bibliotekernes vurdering
d. 10. okt. 2014
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Thomas Tiedje
d. 10. okt. 2014
<i>"I'm so, so far from perfect, will you take me as I am?",</i> rapper Elliott Gleave, der for alvor slog igennem tilbage i 2011. I sommer spillede han sin første koncert i Danmark på Smukfest, og under bøgetræerne gik hans feststemte <i>rave-hop</i> efter sigende rent ind hos publikum. Det her er Examples femte album, og undervejs er han gået fra at være en <i>street wise dude</i> som Tinie Tempah til hitliste-idol og buddy med blandt andre Pet Shop Boys. Rappen er også skrumpet ind til enkelte rim, og Elliott synes nu mere opsat på at levere en fest, der står i 90'er-klubkulturens tegn i form af dance, EDM og drum'n'bass. Der er knald på fra start til slut, og selv om Example stadig kan lyde bekymret, er festen nu i centrum.
The guardian
d. 3. juli 2014
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Caroline Sullivan
d. 3. juli 2014
"One of the big bangers, Kids Again, explodes into an EDM climax just as Example reflects that happiness as a 32-year-old isn't a patch on the uncomplicated joy he knew as a teenager. And the three songs dedicated to his wife - of which One More Day is the most propulsive - are whopping house tracks with troubled hearts: his marital bliss is tempered with sung-rapped memories of the loneliness of life before her. Not quite your average mega-bantz lad-rapper, then - file him somewhere between raging-bull Plan B and a more thoughtful Professor Green".
NME
d. 1. juli 2014
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Ben Cardew
d. 1. juli 2014
"While the style may vary, the tone rarely does. Bar a moody-ish late-album spell, everything is designed for maximum rave uplift, displaying not so much light and dark, as light, more light and Day-Glo. The lyrics, too, tend towards the ear-rinsingly bland (as showcased on the single 'One More Day (Stay With Me)' "another lesson learned, another page is turned" etc.) as if Example wants to hide behind disco platitudes. And on the few occasions here he does resort to rap, there is a palpable feel of grudging 'will-this-do'?It's not all bad: when it harvests its ideas from the `90s - particularly Underworld's prog house classic 'Mmm Skyscraper I Love You' (on 'At Night') and The Future Sound Of London's 'Papua New Guinea' (on 'Longest Goodbye') - there's a sense that Example's fifth album could have been something quite unique. Instead, 'Live Life Living' is as hard to stomach as its tongue twister title is to pronounce".