I've listened to it a few times now and I think it's good enough, certainly far from excellent though. There isn't much here that I haven't heard before but at the same time there's a nice dreamy feel to the album and there's some nice textures here and there. There's a few tracks that don't really do much for me but when it's good it's good, especially on tracks such as 'Turn It Off' and 'As Far As I Can See', which is probably the highlight of the album. There's no mistaking the heavy trip-hop influence (some hints of Portishead and Massive Attack here and there) and the dream-pop influences but overall they could have done something a little bit more interesting with them. The album still gets thumbs up from me though. 7/10.
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