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Release Me

The Like

Release Me

Second album of garage pop from the well-connected all-girl LA quartet, produced by Mark Ronson

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Polydor
UK Release date
30/09/2010
  1. 9.0 |   The Digital Fix

    More satisfying than its sugary veneer might at first suggest, musicianship, lyrical acumen and care shown in assembly make this album nigh on essential
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  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    The Like take hooks to the next level by repeating choruses as many times as possible, but the sections are so catchy it's very difficult to get annoyed by the repetitions
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  5. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Harmonies have been fixed and choruses have been sharpened, resulting in an album that zings from start to finish
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  6. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A perfectly produced pop gem with all substance and a lot of style
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  7. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    The stuff of retro-pop wet dreams, all spun-sugar harmonies and bad girl love themes set against a bubblegum beat
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  8. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    They wield their prodigious knowledge in organ-heavy girl-group confections spiked with catty New Wave toughness
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  9. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    If you are partial to a bit of uncomplicated pop you won’t go far wrong with this
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  10. 7.0 |   FasterLouder

    Although it’s certainly a “classic” sound, we’re now reminded of 60s girl groups and Swinging London rather than driving along the coast towards Los Angeles
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  11. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    These girls are kind of funky, or like, totally groovy, or like whatever
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  12. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    In short bursts, it's a feisty, cute and ballsy break-up album
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  13. 6.0 |   BBC

    [It's] desperate, but somehow still an album that you return to, again and again, if only to hear how LA’s Beautiful People live
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  14. 4.0 |   NME

    Print edition only

  15. 2.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    As sweet as a Krispy Kreme doughnut and about as nutritional
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The Like: Release Me

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