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"Head Over Heels" is the fifth studio album by Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo. It was released on June 15, 2018, via Big Beat and Atlantic Records. The album features vocals from artists such as The-Dream, French Montana, Stefflon Don, DRAM and Amber Mark, with production work from producers such as Raphael Saadiq, Rodney Jerkins and Pino Palladino.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 9 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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On this fifth LP, Head Over Heels continue in the same vein as 2014’s White Women, Dave 1 and P-Thugg have opened up their creative process and enlisted outside help, and the result is genuine progression. By enlisting hip-hop up-and-comers like French Montana and Stefflon Don, they’ve inched towards R&B, but in a fashion that feels more like a nod to the Eighties than the present-day equivalent; see the irresistible opening one-two of “Must’ve Been” and “Don’t Sleep” for evidence.
Elsewhere, the tracks that are more classically Chromeo – with “Juice” and “Count Me Out” among the highlights – benefit from the assembly of a star-studded cast of backing musicians that includes Raphael Saadiq and Rodney Jerkins; this is as close to the live iteration of Chromeo that one of their records has ever come. Plus, its arrival at the start of the summer feels like serendipitous timing; this might be their moment.
Reviewed by Joe Goggins for independent.co.uk.
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