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The Temper Trap

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Debut release from the Aussie indie rockers

ADM rating[?]

6.1

Label
Infectious
UK Release date
10/08/2009
  1. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    There's nothing here that's going to surprise anyone in the slightest, but this is sleekly produced, brilliantly written and expertly executed radio fodder. If that's the kind of thing you'd sneer at, then you should reconsider because The Temper Trap has created something that can appeal across the board
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  2. 8.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Sound like a band not filled with doubt about the rewards they might reap from combining guitars, voice, drums, studio effects and allusive lyrics within a standard rock format, but — justly — confident that there is still magic to be found there
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    ...employ the same echoing histrionics as ‘The Joshua Tree’, but with a charming, cooed falsetto taking the place of Bono’s odious bellow
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  4. 6.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Pop music that nods in the direction of A-Ha, Antony Hegarty, Coldplay and at a stretch – on Sweet Disposition – those shrinking violets U2
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  5. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  6. 5.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    There's a great record in here somewhere. But just when you think you've got a handle on it, it slips through your fingers
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  7. 5.0 |   The Observer

    Crisply produced and bristlingly melodic, but also po-faced and personality-free, with lyrics that couch big themes - life and death, love and faith - in empty platitudes
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  8. 4.6 |   Pitchfork

    What the Temper Trap do devastatingly well is drape post-office-party mistake-hookup tackiness in the lofty imagery of global struggle.
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