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Darwin Deez

Darwin Deez

Darwin Deez

Debut album of lo-fi pop from New Yorker described as an 'upbeat Julian Casablancas'

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6.5

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12/04/2010
  1. 9.0 |   Click Music

    For now there's little doubt, he should be everyone's man of the moment. Prepare to fall helplessly in love
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  2. 8.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Darwin Deez’s particular brand of lo-fi, bedroom indie-pop isn’t ground breaking... but everything about it is so cute and endearing that it simply doesn’t matter
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  3. 8.0 |   The Digital Fix

    These ten fantastic tracks (and there isn't a duff one on here) all sparkle with his character and personality
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  4. 8.0 |   Q

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  5. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    An album cut from the same cloth as The Strokes' This Is It - bright, clean melodies with just a touch of gain, song structures you're hard pressed to forget
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  6. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    It will probably be a little too Williamsburg for many outide Brooklyn, but next to Owl City, Deez's debut is a positive hoot
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  7. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    These songs fizzle and snap with jerky guitar riffs, euphoric melodies and beats that stutter and bounce like a faulty fairground ride
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  8. 7.0 |   Spin

    Every sweetly conflicted track sounds almost exactly the same, but his perverse playfulness makes that limitation almost feel like liberation
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  9. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s hard not to like it
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  10. 7.0 |   NME

    Print edition only

  11. 6.0 |   The Fly

    The sharp wit of ‘Bad Day’ and ‘Suicide Song’ sadly disappears under Darwin Deez’s relentlessly chirpy, grating sound
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  12. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  13. 5.0 |   The Observer

    At its best, the result suggests a hybrid of the Moldy Peaches and the Strokes, matching the former's humour with the latter's itchy rhythms
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  14. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    There’s an absolutely great EP somewhere amongst the length of Darwin Deez’s debut, it’s just unfortunate that it’s been distilled into a sub-par full-length
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  15. 4.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  16. 4.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Deez just makes lo-fi indie pop like everyone else these days. Sure, it’s entertaining but it’s not original or has any kind of vital artistic merit
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  17. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    Here's an album for which individual track downloads were invented
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