Super Press Reviews

[Drico One]

As per the handy review thread we put together for Electric three years ago, here is a consolidated collection of press reviews of the new album, Super. I'll add further links and reviews as I find them. We'll also add "Fan Reviews" if people want a handy collection of links to the in-depth reviews of fans on the forum.

English Language Reviews:

Q - 4/5 "A rich vein of form continues"
Classic Pop - 4/5 "A complete triumph"
Mojo - 3/5 "Listenable, though inconsequential"
Uncut - 7/10 "A reminder that they remain a lively genre of their own creation"
The Sun - 4/5
Gay Times - 4/5
Slant Magazine - 3.5/5 "They never fail to call it like it is"
Slug Magazine - Rave Review "Super succeeds in the joie de vivre department and then some"
Consequence of Sound - C+ "There's nothing different on their latest, but the electropop duo still somehow sound fresh"
The Arts Desk - 3/5 "Still capable of heartbreaking beauty among the layers of inscrutability"
The Daily Mail - 4/5 "Pop veterans still cutting it"
The Guardian - 4/5 "A celebration of camaraderie through music"
The Boston Globe - "Flows together like a night at a club"
The Sydney Morning Herald - 4/5 "The most banger-filled thing they have done"
The Times - 4/5 "As celebratory as it is detached"
MusicOMH - 4/5 "Their music has an awful lot to say, and is finding increasingly enjoyable ways of saying it"
The Evening Standard - 4/5 "Indestructible"
DIY - 4/5 "Confirmation of their position at the head of the pop pantheon"
Idolator - 4/5 "Several new Pet Shop Boys instant-classics are lying in wait"
The Daily Telegraph - 3/5 "A continuation of the party"
Mixmag - 9/10 "Irresistible once again"
Toronto Sun - 4/5 "More than the sum of its parts"
The Yorkshire Times - 3/5 "Aimed at the feet rather than the head"
Metro Weekly - 4/5 "Superb"
The Scotsman - 3/5 "Club-friendly, but elegant with it"
All Music - 4/5 "A swaggering epilogue"
Drowned in Sound - 8/10 "They have no right to be as addictive or as fresh as this"
ABC News - 3.5/5 "An unapologetic club record"
Pitchfork - 6.9/10 "They recall their own past with trademark arch wit"
Rolling Stone (Australia) - 3.5/4 "A confident love letter to hedonism"
The Big Issue - 4/5 "Bigger, louder, and even more, well, Electric"
Buzz - 5/5 "Awesome and amazing"
Pop Matters - 9/10 "A spellbinding ride"
Examiner.com - 4/5 "Filled with intricate layers of beauty"
The Observer - 3/5 "Makes you nostalgic for days when erudition in pop wasn't so rare"
Attitude - 8/10 "A vibrant, bewildering love-letter to the dancefloor"
The Financial Times - 3/5


International Reviews:

Musik Express (Germany) - 4.5/6
Plattentests (Germany) - 7/10
Rolling Stone (Germany) 4.5/5
Spiegel Online (Germany) - 7.5/10
Rockol (Italy) - 3.5/5
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) - 3/5
Jenesaispop (Spain) - 8/10
Rolling Stone (Italy) - 4/5
Laut.de (Germany) - 4/5
Hamburger Abendblatt (Germany)
Die Welt (Germany)
Rolling Stone (Russia) - 5/5
De Volkskrant (Netherlands)
Spex (Germany)
Die Zeit (Germany)
Berliner Zeitung (Germany)
Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)
Frankfurter Rundschau (Germany)
Gaffa (Norway) - 5/6
Gaffa (Denmark) - 4/6




Fan Reviews:

Tom Angel "They’re better suited acting their age"
CroMagnon "Good, not great"
Drico "An intoxicating and delirious record"
Drico - Track-by-track preview
glennjridge "Fantastic, with lots of variation"
Shopper "Their most lighthearted album"
Old Soak "An absolute triumph"
Ramzy "a striking disconnect between the bright, brash artwork and the sad world lit up by strobe lights"

[Drico One]

Updated with the four-star Q review courtesy of Coufy.

[Tom Angel]

Hope to see mine for Line of Best Fit here at some point - I'm not reading any reviews until I've written my own.

[whateverman42]

This thread is a good idea, very convenient. The effort is appreciated Drico.

[vincenzosz]

Thanks for putting this together.

[Henrik Powers]

Great thread... Thanks!

[tottenhammattspurs]

Album of the month and four stars from Classic Pop Magazine

[NikacP0kac]

What if, just what if the Stuart Price trilogy was exploring all the eras they've existed in? So Electric the 00s and 10s (EDM), Super the 90s (house etc.) and the third album the 80s (classic four on the floor rhythms, what they do best).

I'd fu*king love that!

[ZiggyPSB]

And what nostalgic song would they write for that? The pop babies? The pop embryos? The pop glint in the truck driver and his mates eye?

[Lleonard Pler]

Thanks Tottenham, that sure was a positive review!

[Tenlow]

Thanks for that

"Sad Robot Wars" though

[daveid]

That's a very promising review, particularly as it reaffirms what drico said about it not being immediately accessible but then burying itself in later. "Sad Robot Wars?"

[Tenlow]

"Sad Robot Wars?"

Apparently one of the titles in the review

[britboy]

It's beginning to sound like that the critics are finding the new album "super(b)" !!!

[jrusher12]

Thanks so much for putting this together!