Time for some rock!
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[5.17]
Scott Mildenhall: What links the writers of the second best-selling song and title track of the best-selling album of all time? Of course, it’s Europe’s Food Town, otherwise known as Great Grimsby. Mint are merely one of the latest to follow in its esteemed musical lineage, and they clearly have something to extend it with. The long bridge from previous singles like the 1975-via-Pigeon-Detectives “Elise” and the harder-edged “St Oxford” towards this is a clear one, but it’s at this point that things get exciting. The illusion of uncontained energy is played so well, so containedly and so cannily that the thrill is half in the ascending sonics and half the synergistic sense that wow, this is a Grimbarian band who could justifiably go far. The stakes sound high, and why shouldn’t they?
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Ian Mathers: Makes me wish I had access to a treadmill (or was better at/had any interest in running outside) again; some of the ROCK signifiers are a bit whatever in my estimation, but they absolutely did not have to give us that great, needling second guitar part during the chorus and they did, and that’s more than enough for me.
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Iain Mew: I enjoy the rolling barrage of guitars and drums, like they’re simultaneously setting up and dodging through their own obstacle course as they go. I just wish it was saying something better or even more neutral than tiger thighs.
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Joshua Minsoo Kim: The thrill of buzzing guitars and impassioned vocals being thwarted by the lame screams of “Medication!” and “Tiger thighs!”
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Juan F. Carruyo: Tuneful enough plus lots of saturation of the vocal track so it can retain a that underground grit yet it never quite takes off, relying too much on an ugly, angular riff.
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Katherine St Asaph: I’ve spent like two hours trying to remember which late-’90s soundtrack I skipped this track on.
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