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Melt The Honey

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Melt The Honey

The third full-length album from the Toronto band led by Madeline Link recorded in Mexico

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
Fire Talk
UK Release date
19/01/2024
US Release date
19/01/2024
  1. 9.0 |   Spill Magazine

    Link and her band seem to have that mutual understanding that is very often essential to make the music work
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  2. 8.0 |   Exclaim

    PACKS is developing their voice more with every album, and Link is establishing herself as a songwriter with a clear and unvarnished sense of self, unafraid to take risks without losing what's at her music's core
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  3. 7.5 |   Paste Magazine

    The Toronto band's third LP features a tracklist of inventive indie-rock songs and impressive writing from Madeline Link
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  4. 7.3 |   Pitchfork

    The Toronto lo-fi rockers deliver indelible hooks with slacker nonchalance
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  5. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Melt the Honey beautifully captures the absurdity and importance of life’s fleeting moments. Whether they’re flea bites, head rushes, smooth kisses or wind-blown hair, it’s all part of our own, unique, unfolding story
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  6. 7.0 |   All Music

    If it unfolds mostly like a set of made-up-on-the-fly, unserious, everyday-occurrence tunes, it's one by somebody who is exceptionally good at it, with a sharp ear for hooks, quirky phrasing tendencies, and visceral, spontaneous-sounding accompaniment, ultimately making Melt the Honey play out something like a guilty pleasure
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  7. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    While Link's observations are often engaging on the album, they can sometimes get lost in her sometimes-affected lethargy
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  8. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    The follow-up to Crispy Crunchy Nothing is short, but packed full of off-kilter, lo-fi indie rock in which its creator’s songwriting prowess shines through
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