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80
With More Than Just a Dream, Fitz & the Tantrums have made an even more infectious, club-ready album than Pickin' Up the Pieces, while still retaining all of the band's organic soulfulness.
10y
78
More than Just a Dream is poised for prime time, a diabetic coma of sugar-rush pop.
10y
75
The result is a muddled affair, bogged down by synths, monotonous loops, and occasionally out-of-tune vocals. There’s still a great band with a knack for jangly shout-along choruses somewhere in there; we hope they wake up after this Dream.
67
More Than Just A Dream is a leap for the band sonically, one that would deserve more credit if Fitz and company weren’t still taking so much from the past.
10y
60
More Than Just a Dream is worth a spin for anyone with a weakness for neo-soul flourishes and hooks pitched above the ringtone fodder level, even if the old-school musicality and the modern rock-flavored production never make comfortable bedfellows.
10y
60
On their 2010 debut, Pickin' Up the Pieces, FATT were soul revivalists, and though you can still hear plenty of Motown in the beat and the booming production, they've tossed in lots more: hip-hop, electro, jittery New Wave and even a dash of Mumford & Sons in their shouty choruses.
50
While there is no lack of energy in the performances, many songs seem forced and lack the organic groove that effective soul music demands.
40
Not everything on their debut was that tough, but much of it came close. So you’d think the band would ace a follow-up as explicitly indebted to tinny-cavernous mid-’80s production techniques and power-ballad songwriting.
10y
30
Fitzpatrick has run out of anything interesting to say, instead relying on awful clichés (“Break The Walls”), and the saxophone has been traded in for stacks of schmaltzy synths.
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I feel tired...this album is so full of energy and that 80s influence that I...at least used love to hear but I got nothing out of this, maybe I'm just not in the right mood, like I'm not exactly feeling like listening to the most cliche YEAAAAH AAAA OOOO WOAAAH core 80s pop album that came out in the 2010s but usually this type of stuff makes me feel good even if I'm not in the mood for happy ... read more
For every wonderful guilty pleasure on here there is a painfully mid track on here as well. Overall a decent album mostly because of the singles, but I doubt the replay value is very high.
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Track List
| 1 | Out of My League 3:31 | 94 |
| 2 | Break the Walls 3:36 | 65 |
| 3 | The Walker 3:53 | 93 |
| 4 | Spark 3:19 | 80 |
| 5 | 6am 4:30 | 83 |
| 6 | Fools Gold 3:35 | 75 |
| 7 | Keepin Our Eyes Out 3:09 | 73 |
| 8 | Last Raindrop 4:03 | 73 |
| 9 | House on Fire 3:28 | 80 |
| 10 | The End 3:47 | 75 |
| 11 | Get Away 2:56 | 78 |
| 12 | MerryGoRound 3:32 | 70 |
Total Length: 43 minutes
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Added on: May 5, 2013