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Alfred Soto: To let the stress fall on the title’s unlikeliest place is this English band’s novelty. The rest is influences without anxiety.
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Jonathan Bradley: Murky guitars churn like a poorly printed illustration of a wild storm in an old book. Then George Mitchell, who has the name of a schoolboy in an old book with poorly printed illustrations, yelps like the not-so-wild singer of an old band who opened for a poorly promoted post-punk show in 1982. I was going to say that tunes aren’t optional, but my score suggests they actually are.
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Patrick St. Michel: The guitar feedback doesn’t even sound that harsh, so the bad screamsinging probably isn’t even necessary.
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Katherine St Asaph: YOU BECOME KNOWN TO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HEADS DUE TO THE FACT THAT YOU TAKE CHEAP PLAUSIBLY DENIABLE SHOTS AT WOMEN IN BANDS AND THEIR WHITE KNIGHTS TOO. WITHOUT YOUR PATINA OF CONSPICUOUS WORKING-CLASS BRO-DOWNING OVER YOUR CLICKBAITY CAREER BOOST AND OKAY ROCK YOU HAVE NOTHING. IF YOU HAVE READ THIS TAKE NOTE.
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Will Adams: Come again?
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Crystal Leww: Hm, this would sound better if the vocalist were female.
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Kat Stevens: This is worse than the time an actual seagull stole my sausage sandwich OUT OF MY HAND at one of the ATPs in Minehead. And I’m not even hungover right now!
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Anthony Easton: I have been listening to a lot of The Drums, because the snow has finally gone. This also goes on my “winter is finally gone” list.
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Brad Shoup: This has some neat melodic contours, and they really turned up the shoegaze for the album version. This being an English band, there’s no way this is really a piss-take: the earnest sense of anthem is far too strong. Is that a carillon in the bridge? I dunno, it sounds like some fuckaround ’90s indie act that tried to be funny and ended up with a pop song.
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Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy: Passable post-punk affectations — the snottiness shows signs of life, but this is people singing into past reflections.
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