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6.0
29950
6.0 |
The Irish Times
While these anthemic, beefy rock songs don’t quite inspire instant adulation, they’re far from horrible enough to hate
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6.0
29952
6.0 |
The Fly
Some will have great nights out to these songs; others will throw up onto their Animal Collective t-shirts
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5.0
29969
5.0 |
AU Review
Famous First Words just doesn’t stray far enough from safe ground to leave a lasting impression
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5.0
29976
5.0 |
NME
Every song sounds as if it has been written to a formula for greatness excitedly, adorably scrawled on the back of a beer mat in the Third-To-Last-Chance Saloon
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5.0
30037
5.0 |
The Digital Fix
A competent debut that almost makes you forget they were once emo band Kill The Arcade
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5.0
30055
5.0 |
Clash
What’s frustrating is that it’s too damn enjoyable and not quite derivative enough to actively hate
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5.0
30282
5.0 |
BBC
Musically it’s sure-footed enough – revivalist fare that ticks enough nostalgia boxes to have anyone whose teenage years took in the mid- to late-90s humming along absent-mindedly – but the lyrics here are pitiful
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4.0
30015
4.0 |
Uncut
It's all just talk, sadly. Print edition only
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4.0
30019
4.0 |
Q
A disappointing debut. Print edition only
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4.0
30022
4.0 |
Mojo
Estuary vowels and clipped guitars belie songs with nagging hooks, clever arrangements and hints of hands-aloft euphoria. Print edition only
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4.0
29958
4.0 |
Evening Standard
Brother turn out to sound like the mildly more butch offspring of Busted and McFly. Oh, well
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4.0
29941
4.0 |
musicOMH
Viva Brother's world is neither brave nor new
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4.0
29948
4.0 |
The Guardian
Even if you were in nappies when football was held to be coming home, you've heard it all done better before
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3.0
29997
3.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Derivative to the point of being permanently stuck in reverse gear, it's a record that oozes predictability and little besides
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2.9
29943
2.9 |
Pitchfork
Nothing more than a thinly disguised, crass attempt to smoke latent Oasis fans out of hiding
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2.0
29949
2.0 |
The Independent
Brash, self-consciously bratty chancers, who are fatally mired in hackneyed Britpop mannerisms
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2.0
29951
2.0 |
The Skinny
The formula marries the two most iconic styles of the era – Blur's high-pitched singalong choruses, and Oasis' beer-soaked guitar hooks – while surgically removing any residue of charm or personality
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2.0
30030
2.0 |
God Is In The TV
If you REALLY like 90s music go and buy a few additions of Shine, or some of the best albums of the period. PLEASE DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS
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2.0
29979
2.0 |
Independent on Sunday
This debut is so lame, it makes the Beady Eye album sound like Let It Bleed
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2.0
29981
2.0 |
The Observer
Sets the cause of resurgent guitar rock back… ooh, a good 20 years
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2.0
30388
2.0 |
PopMatters
Whether to laugh or cry is your choice to make
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2.0
30119
2.0 |
The Quietus
About as anaemic and pale as music gets
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0.0
30265
0.0 |
No Ripcord
This album is bad. Not only is the album bad, no... awful, actually no... repugnant. It is also what it represents that is equally offensive
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