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Cloud Control

Bliss Release

Debut album from Australian indie rock quartet

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7.2

Label
Infectious
UK Release date
23/05/2011
US Release date
24/05/2011
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  1. 8.5 |   BBC

    This is some of the most consistent songwriting to come from Australia since the loss of The Go-Betweens, and some of the most arcane performing available anywhere outside of Arcade Fire
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  2. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    There's an appealing open-heartedness about the debut from Australian psychedelic poppers Cloud Control, a sense of wide-eyed, slightly fried wonder
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  3. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    It’s an old-fashioned and unshowy affair, but sometimes a clutch of stunning songs is all that’s required
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  4. 8.0 |   FasterLouder

    Might be all that Australia’s über-cool ‘indie’ crowd needs to keep them warm through winter and it might be all that the four piece need to boost them to the success they truly deserve
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  5. 8.0 |   DIY

    It’s a light, catchy, debut album, doing easily enough to distinguish both itself, and a previously uninspiring Australian scene
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  6. 8.0 |   Clash

    If there’s a jollier indie rock record this year I will eat my feet
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  7. 8.0 |   Q

    There's something magical about the rapturous jumble of C86-esque indie, WOMAD rhythms and cooing dual vocals. Print edition only

  8. 8.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    By any standards, special. By Aussie pop standards, extraordinary
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  9. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Throughout Bliss Release, Cloud Control masterfully craft their own special brand of folk-infused, psychedelic pop
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  10. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    You get the sense that it has come a little late in the day
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  11. 6.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    The boy-girl dynamic with keyboardist Heidi Lenffer’s supporting vocals are reminiscent of the innocent sexual tension heard on the very best indie pop
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  12. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    Although accomplished, Bliss Release doesn't add much to the vocabulary of blissed-out pop
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  13. 6.0 |   NME

    Definitely loveable. Largely inessential
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  14. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    As debuts go this is in its way a throwback to a bygone era when bands offered up flawed but fertile inaugural efforts of the kind that made “promising” a buzz word before there were buzz words
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