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To Lose My Life

White Lies

To Lose My Life

Debut album from the London indie rock trio

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4.5

Label
Fiction
UK Release date
19/01/2009
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  1. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    On the whole, To Lose My Life is a solid debut that will certainly divide opinion, but approach with an open mind and dividends will be reaped en masse.
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  2. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    They make amazingly-assured big pop music with pretensions to grandeur that never fall into mere pretension
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  3. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Summer after next, they'll be festival headliners. Love it or hate it, this lot are going all the way.
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  4. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    It's not quite bad enough to be dubbed an honest failure, but it's flaws are too debilitating for me to recommend blowing a tenner on a copy.
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  5. 5.0 |   Clash

    Domestic indie hopes in 2009 seem rather pinned to White Lies’ mast right now, the London trio carrying a great weight of expectation upon their shoulders.
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  6. 5.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Sound like Joy Division fans with Coldplay-size ambitions.
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  7. 4.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Eighties synth rock is now a failsafe starting point for too many new bands and this London trio have taken it too far... leaving a horrible white musical mess on the streets
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  8. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    The basslines and melodies may snag like hell, but this is the sound of archly constructed doom being wrung dry.
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  9. 4.0 |   The Observer

    The overriding impression is of a band subsuming their identity to commercial indie formula, one given further credence by off-the-peg lyrics which speak in risible, angsty platitudes
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  10. 4.0 |   Pitchfork

    The most relevant current comparison is probably Glasvegas, another UK band groomed early on for success, only to release a disappointingly ponderous debut album.
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  11. 2.0 |   The Quietus

    Has to be one the most pessimistic and disparaging albums to have been released in quite some time...this country’s unnecessary answer to the pompous and bloated guff of The Killers.
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  12. 2.0 |   musicOMH

    So then. White Lies, the first dark hope of 2009, fail. To Lose My Life is an album made to a predefined plan with skill and no heart. It's depressing for all the wrong reasons. Like your parents no doubt once said, don't tell lies. Even little white ones.
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