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  • Summary: The sixth full-length release for the British indie/Krautrock band features tracks from three previously limited released EPs.
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Serotonin Rushes
Stop! Picking holds in everything you know what happens you keep pulling on a string everything starts slowly unraveling if you keep on keep on... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. May 18, 2017
    80
    It is, in fact, an intoxicating must-have album worth a place in any collection.
  2. Apr 6, 2017
    80
    With a full set that rivals their best songs to date without significant reinvention, it's a must for fans and great place to start for the uninitiated.
  3. Apr 26, 2017
    80
    Fujiya & Miyagi is the sound of a band no longer press darlings (see 2006’s Transparent Things), but not old enough for local festivals just yet. And it’s that tension that gives us the band’s most confident LP for ages.
  4. Apr 6, 2017
    70
    It's true that Fujiya & Miyagi have a particular formula, and they seem to follow it on their self-titled LP, but they've managed to figure out when to use this formula to satiate listeners and when to tweak it to make listeners salivate.
  5. Uncut
    Apr 6, 2017
    70
    The buttery groove of "Serotonin Rushes" and "Swoon" suggests F&Y are at the top of their idiosyncratic game. [May 2017, p.30]
  6. Mojo
    Apr 6, 2017
    60
    Their sixth album doesn't veer too wildly from it [their MO]--lashing Krautrock grooves to a broad cross-section of dance music tropes, and embellished with Best's labuorous, conversational vocal style. [May 2017, p.91]
  7. 60
    This album, drawing together their three recent EPs, also displays the diversity of Best’s lyrical interests, ranging from brain chemistry (“Serotonin Rushes”) to psychoanalysis (“Freudian Slips”) and, in “Impossible Objects Of Desire”, the enigmatic allure of records which defined so many lives.
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