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Album review | POP

Tanlines, ‘Mixed Emotions’

By Michael Brodeur

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 20, 2012

To get overly heady about “Mixed Emotions,’’ the debut full-length from NYC duo Tanlines would only weigh down its deliciously familiar electro trop-pop tropes (say that three times fast) and, frankly, ruin the party they’re trying to throw. And while it’s difficult to ignore this album’s more meta- qualities when listening (over and over, they effortlessly nail that coveted John Hughes’ movie end-credits vibe), it’s important to try.

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