In a three-track blast at the front end of their second full-length, they showcase a world of youthful exuberance, glorious, carefree fun and pop nous that sets their peers back on their heels.
While missed connections litter the album – missed calls, disembodied names on screens – I’m All Ears is about abandoning fear and leaping boldly towards desire. It is remarkable.
Though they can often get a little overindulgent at times on this record, Let’s Eat Grandma rarely miss the mark on this record.
Like a magic eye puzzle falling into place, ‘I’m All Ears’ has only slightly shifted the band’s focus, but suddenly it all makes sense.
Reflecting Walton and Hollingworth’s growth and maturation over a period of approximately two years, it is a creative and infectious record, which after repeat listens, moves from being intriguing to simply irresistible.
It’s a thrill to listen to their experiments, their tinkering with sounds and ideas.
As a record that’s as lyrically compelling as it is sonically daring, I’m All Ears is an admirable follow-up to an impressive debut.
The British duo has transformed again with I’m All Ears, their second full-length record, which is simultaneously murky and bright, retiring and confrontational.
I'm All Ears arrived almost exactly two years after Let's Eat Grandma's debut, I, Gemini, but the leap the duo makes on its second album feels like it should've taken much longer.
Through all the eccentricities and quirks, it should be said that ‘I’m All Ears’ manages to be a gloriously readable pop album on first listen. For a band hailed as cult heroes one album in, this is the boldest statement they’ve made so far.
Depending on your taste for that kind of home-brewed, distinctively British weirdness, I’m All Ears is either a massive leap forwards or a sad lurch towards the middle-ground.
With I'm All Ears, Let's Eat Grandma encapsulate the agony and ecstasy of youth – and even more besides – in constantly dynamic ways that demand your attention.
Ultimately it’s the spirit of adventure that runs through the entire enterprise that makes the diversity feel perfectly coherent, and timely.
Satisfying as both a sophomore effort and streamlined pop album, I'm All Ears establishes Let's Eat Grandma as a band that need to be heard.
While I'm All Ears never dips into the shrouded fervor of its predecessor, Let's Eat Grandma can still weave a curious quilt.
I'm All Ears stretches pretty far beyond standard synthpop sounds at times, which makes for some nice eclecticism. Well, it's nice until the group decides to stretch things out with nine- and 11-minute tracks near the end of the album.
Musically I’m All Ears is much more accessible than the debut and is a mixed bag in its creativity.
Proof that proper grammar saves lives. (Let's eat, Grandma)
Seriously though, the production makes you feel like you're being thrown around like a rag doll one moment and in some sort of colorful melancholy the next. Personally, It's been awhile since I've heard vocals mix with synthesizers this well. A head phone listen (not to mention a must listen)!
falling into me hmmmmyea it's the best song of all time fo sho, how tf they my age ?!?!?!
this is a really cute little pop album. it kinda reminds me of charli xcx at times but there are also more emotional cuts like ava. i do think three interludes is a bit excessive but other than that this is great
A sweet synthpop epic with a colorful range of musical styles and intense emotions. The best work of the duo yet, and it's not even close.
I've loved this project since the year it released. There's something about the ethereal beauty mixed with primal and very feminine power that permeates these songs, that's irresistible to me. The fantastic late SOPHIE producing some of these songs (perhaps most recognizably my favourite one, Hot Pink) helped with these aspects, but it's honestly first and ... read more
this is like the most magic and ethereal album i've ever had the pleasure of hearing
1 | Whitewater 1:55 | 86 |
2 | Hot Pink 4:08 | 93 |
3 | It's Not Just Me 3:55 | 88 |
4 | Falling Into Me 5:46 | 94 |
5 | Snakes & Ladders 5:57 | 88 |
6 | Missed Call (1) 0:37 | 69 |
7 | I Will Be Waiting 4:23 | 87 |
8 | The Cat's Pyjamas 1:05 | 70 |
9 | Cool & Collected 9:17 | 84 |
10 | Ava 3:04 | 82 |
11 | Donnie Darko 11:19 | 88 |
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