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If you'd asked me a year ago where their album would chart, I'd first express confusion at the fact that they are a group, and then I'd have thought they'd be lucky to break the top 40. Their meteoric rise in the months following has happened so fast that it's hard for me to grasp that it actually has happened.<br><br>And it really is surprising considering what they are. To my eyes, they don't exactly have any sort of brand or identity that sticks out, both in image and music. They do have a similar sort of production and beat work to Calvin Harris in parts, but without the flair; just some very carefully laid out tracks to sound good, but ultimately not lead very far.<br><br>Then I guess what surprised me later is that I enjoyed it. Perhaps it's a sort of Stockholm syndrome case as I found the leading singles to be progressively better and then by the time I got to the full product, most of my anxieties were gone. Maybe it didn't get much of a reaction out of me, but I couldn't help but admire some of the pretty sounds coming out of here, such as in songs like "Sundream" & "Two Clocks". I guess the album sounded like I expected it to, so fatigue can slip in (though having just 11 tracks helps), but I guess it's just a case of the rut that they stick themselves in.<br><br>To describe this album: Bizarre<br>To describe this album sonically: Serviceable.<br><br>3.7 | 
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