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10.0
139316
10.0 |
NME
Dana Margolin’s bare-bones lyrical dive into heartbreak and change underpins a record that matches the emotional weight of her band’s live show
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8.0
139308
8.0 |
Dork
Taking your life back as your own following the end of a relationship is one of the most important steps a person can take. ‘Sick Of The Blues’ is the perfect closer for an album largely about heartbreak for this very reason
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8.0
139310
8.0 |
Pitchfork
Dana Margolin’s band returns with a ferocious new album about burning out and burning it down
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8.0
139355
8.0 |
Under The Radar
The band has a knack for touching upon arena rock’s divine grandiosity without losing a twee familiarity and closeness. The result feels like riding among the clouds
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8.0
139368
8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
For a musician to search this deeply inside themselves makes any of the work to come out of it a true odyssey, and in that fact lies the importance of a record like CITSTWABTFM. It’s much less of a record than it is a journey set to music
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8.0
139300
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
There’s fury here, floods of it, but also sorrow. It’s as if Margolin stands amidst a storm, weeping while she shakes her fist at the sky, a cross between Ophelia, Eurydice, and Medea
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8.0
139301
8.0 |
The Observer
Emotions run high on the Brighton band’s fourth album as frontwoman Dana Margolin exorcises past relationships
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8.0
139302
8.0 |
All Music
The album closes on the indie rock over-it anthem "Sick of the Blues," a singalong that gets the whole band involved and even breaks out a trumpet solo at the end, as if to emphasize that Margolin may be down but she's not out
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8.0
139303
8.0 |
Mojo
Opener Anybody’s declaration of fresh love duly builds with electrifying presence. There follow bare-wire examinations of audience dependency (Lavender, Raspberries) and resurgent desire (In A Dream I’m A Painting), before Sick Of The Blues provides a heartburstingly triumphant ‘choose life’ finale. Print edition only
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8.0
139304
8.0 |
Uncut
Sitting somewhere between alt.rock, indie-pop and a singer-songwriter album, it’s a neat balancing act that feels personal and intimate yet also sonically ambitious. Print edition only
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8.0
139305
8.0 |
DIY
A record of hard-won emotional progress
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8.0
139306
8.0 |
The Skinny
Porridge Radio are one of the most dependably consistent bands out there, and their brand of dejected slacker indie/alt-rock will grab you, hold you tight, and won’t let go
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7.6
139363
7.6 |
Spectrum Culture
The angsty English band dials it back and looks inward for a gloomy but ultimately hopeful album
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7.0
139318
7.0 |
Far Out
Clouds In The Sky isn’t a change in direction for Porridge Radio, it sits within the same realm of their previous releases
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7.0
139307
7.0 |
Exclaim
Porridge Radio claw their way to a newfound equilibrium by facing these emotional highs and lows, coming out the other side all the better for it
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