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10.0
113884
10.0 |
The Irish Times
A raucous, idiosyncratic return
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9.5
113807
9.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A petrifying and spectacular second full-length record
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9.1
113810
9.1 |
Paste Magazine
The band recorded the album in an off-season manor house, and the result is just as grand as the setting
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9.0
113851
9.0 |
DIY
Where the unlikely meets the possible
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9.0
113857
9.0 |
Crack
The Talkies is an album so viscerally brilliant it stays with you long after you’ve stopped listening, the silence ringing in your ears
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9.0
113862
9.0 |
The 405
Girl Band’s latest offering ramps up their known abrasiveness to a whole new level, for a sound that is bolder and indebted to the abstract chaos that’s always dwelled deep within him and his gang
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8.0
113808
8.0 |
The Skinny
The Talkies is a superb return, with Girl Band building upon what they know they can do but without resting on their laurels. Still experimenting, still funny, still brilliant
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8.0
113809
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
While Girl Band don’t exactly find peace, they excel here in this erratic calm
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8.0
113823
8.0 |
Pitchfork
On their first new album in four years, the Irish punk quartet channel pure, visceral panic through screeching sensory assaults and scrap-metal clang
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8.0
113826
8.0 |
All Music
While it may be a struggle to listen to for anyone caught unaware, it's that same struggle that makes their output so captivating as an experience
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8.0
113827
8.0 |
The Guardian
This second album has taken four years, but the songs, finessing the band’s noise-rock through a filter of techno and glam, are sensational
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8.0
113806
8.0 |
Clash
Beautiful, primal and raw, this is not an album for the faint-hearted
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8.0
114272
8.0 |
Under The Radar
It's a record that demands to be heard in its entirety, preferably in one sitting. Yet once digested, it never disappoints from thereon in
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7.0
113899
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Girl Band is creating music that is at times equally assaulting and rhythmic
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7.0
114042
7.0 |
Northern Transmissions
There are times when the noise levels become so twisted and contorted, like on ‘Akineton’s distorted melee and ‘Caveat’s Aphex Twin-like freak out or ‘Laggard’s migraine-inducing broken alarm racket, you feel like you’re being pushed to your sonic limits
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7.0
113811
7.0 |
Exclaim
Getting deeper and darker than ever before on The Talkies, it will be interesting to see what Girl Band do next
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6.0
113877
6.0 |
The Observer
It’s an intensely, intentionally stressful listen, the occasional victory of thumping, clanking grooves over the scraping, grating racket offering an illusion of normality before snatching it away again
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6.0
114155
6.0 |
Q
This is not a record for the faint hearted. Print edition only
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