Somewhere Else

Indians - Somewhere Else
Critic Score
Based on 16 reviews
2013 Ratings: #772 / 1115
User Score
Based on 13 ratings
January 29, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
4AD / Label
Indie Pop / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
NME

Søren’s material is both accessible and imbued with left-of-centre detail, such as the strings that crackle and echo like ancient memories under his wholesome vocal. 

80
Beats Per Minute

Every note on Somewhere Else seems expressly designed to elicit as many emotions from the listener as possible.

76
Pitchfork

The songs of Somewhere Else are hot-air balloons, charmingly handmade and possessed of an element of the unknown; you're not sure how high these things are supposed to go.

70
Tiny Mix Tapes

Indians has crafted a finely-tuned, hauntingly beautiful, if still tentative, collection of songs.

70
DIY

There will be those who will listen to Indians and not get swept along with their world-weary tidings but for those who feel the same or just want to escape, this LP is perfection.

65
The 405

With a ≈ voice and inclination to bounce from piano and strings immediately to arpeggiated synth and drum machines, Indians makes this feel like the quintessential debut album: a collection of great ideas without much purpose.

60
Drowned in Sound

The record has an enjoyable purity – unbound by any sort of baggage, emotional or otherwise, you can appreciate the form, the shape, the craft in the abstract, shorn of any sort of context.

60
No Ripcord

Somewhere Else in the end leaves the listener longing for something else, some little bit of grist in the mill, to make the songs stick in the head and in the heart. There’s promise here to be sure, but it’s a promise as yet unfulfilled.

50
Consequence of Sound

On Somewhere Else, Juul combines his fragile falsetto with ambient, hazed-out synths to create impressionistic glaciers that counter-intuitively radiate warmth. 

Antonis
86

Why oh why do I love it so badly?:-)

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Track List

  1. New
  2. Bird
  3. I Am Haunted
  4. Magic Kids
  5. Lips Lips Lips
  6. Reality Sublime
  7. Cakelakers
  8. La Femme
  9. Melt
  10. Somewhere Else
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Added on: January 23, 2013