Well, it's a enough promising start: the title track leads the way with a laid-back style reminiscent of a more guitary New Order, although that's as much down to the vocals as anything.
It's rather unexpected, then, when they switch to more Latin-inspired sounds and singing in their native French, on 'Platforms'. The songs are split almost fifty-fifty between English and French, which makes for an album that's a tad disjointed. It's not that variety's a bad thing by any means, and while there is an overarching style that threads 'All Day Tomorrow' together, the sparse 'Generations' has a touch of The XX about it, and it's well executed but doesn't sit entirely comfortably alongside the tube-crunched twang of the swaggering 'Le Lezard' or the dubby 'Smoke Signals' or the woozy electronica of the instrumental 'Early Reflections'.
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'Ivotopia' goes back to the New Order gone baggy template of laid back groove, but does sound awfully dated with its shuffling beat and squidgy synth sounds. When they hit it just right, as on the meandersome 'La Donna Invsible', Papillon make a dreamy sound that's right to get wrapped up in, but on balance there's just too much that doesn't quite gel.
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