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Dansette Dansette

Tender Trap

Dansette Dansette

Third album of twee pop and girl-group harmonies from the London band

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Believe
UK Release date
12/07/2010
  1. 9.0 |   Culture Deluxe

    The summer is here so why not celebrate the sun by letting your macho, rock guard down, embrace your inner tweeness and shimmy around your Dansette… you know it makes sense
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  2. 8.0 |   The Observer

    Phil Spector drums, girl-group ba-ba-bas and songs that combine nostalgia for teenage pastimes with grown-up wit
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  3. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    There’s no pretension and no bombast here, because there’s no need for it. Simply put, this is the sound of a band at their best
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  4. 8.0 |   BBC

    Though thoroughly removed from today’s indie crowd, Dansette Dansette charms with a breezy ease that guarantees it a spot on whatever equivalent to its titular player you bop about to in your bedroom
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  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Sounds every bit as good as indie did back in 1986. Print edition only

  6. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    There is no audible sign that this album didn't come out in 1992 - in its comfortable old fuzz-guitar tone, in its lyrical concerns, in the enduringly liquid curls of Fletcher's voice
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  7. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    It requires that the listener have a fondness for melody and an insatiable musical sweet-tooth. As such, it's a milkshake with two straws, a genuine delight
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  8. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    A fine slice of classic girl-group indie-pop
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  9. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Even though almost 25 years have passed since her first recordings were committed to vinyl, her relevance in the present day should not be be underestimated
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  10. 6.5 |   Bowlegs

    The record is uninterested in getting heavy on us, rather placing itself as a quick fix of evocative, female melody and slanted guitars
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  11. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  12. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    The album offers a range of musical styles that all look fondly to the past for inspiration
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  13. 6.0 |   The Fly

    It’s coquetry at its most shamelessly twee, of course, but easy to get caught up in regardless
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  14. 5.0 |   The 405

    Tender Trap can certainly write a pop song or two but it just doesn’t quite pull me in deep enough to care
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  15. 4.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Ultimately, Dansette Dansette is entirely inoffensive and at times tedious. From any other band it would be an acceptable take on a scene past, but I was expecting a lot more from some of the legendary musicians who set the benchmark
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