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We all know that ‘Acceptable In The 80s’ is among the Top Ten best things to happen this year and now here is the full Calvin Harris long player. Living up to the debut single was always going to be hard work but Harris makes a bloody good go of it: follow-up ‘The Girls’ sounds like a tune you’ve been dancing to for the past six years, as well as sounding like it’ll be on the radio every few minutes for the next six months. Even better is ‘Merry Making At My Place’, which is like ‘Rudebox’ but with a proper bassline and a point. Other moments of goodness include the title track and ‘Vegas’, although the 80s-aping latter does veer dangerously close to self plagiarism with a bassline almost identical to ‘Acceptable In The 80s’. At times Harris seems a little unsure of who or what he wants to be - ‘Neon Rocks’ sounds like something Gwen Stefani might Hoover up for one of her big important albums, the title track wouldn’t sound out of place on a Daft Punk album and ‘In The Industry’ wobbles dangerously near to The World Of Indie. But if everything sounded the same we’d be listening to a Snow Patrol record and we’re not. This is Calvin Harris, and bloody good his album is too.

Taken from: popjustice.com