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Still Living

Ganglians

Still Living

Second album of 60s influenced lo-fi indie pop from the Sacramento four-piece

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6.2

Label
Souterrain Transmission
UK Release date
29/08/2011
US Release date
23/08/2011
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  1. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Brilliant update of the Beach Boys' blueprint. Print edition only

  2. 7.5 |   Bowlegs

    A solid follow-up to Ganglians’ debut and hints at a band with the potential to open up to a much wider audience
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  3. 7.0 |   NME

    It's a summer album, sure, but one that's more sunny peculiar than sunny ha-ha
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  4. 7.0 |   Blurt

    Has its share of baroque pop moments, but its strongest songs are the ones that rock the hardest
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  5. 7.0 |   AU Review

    An ambitious, sprawling beast that takes in everything from the usual Beach Boys/Animal Collective/psych-prog basket that everyone must be sick to their back teeth of by now
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  6. 6.9 |   Pitchfork

    Finds Ganglians delivering on their early promise
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  7. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    It’s an album that perhaps attempts to bottle all of the sundrenched bedroom pop sounds that have dominated indie rock for the last year or so
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  8. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    They’ve got a charm that, appropriately enough, gets under the skin
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  9. 6.0 |   Rave Magazine

    The problem is that if you want garage-rock you have The Black Lips or King Khan & The Shrines; if you want surf-rock you have Best Coast or Wavves
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  10. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    If the band really mined its strengths without all the hipster trappings, its songs could pack a bigger (or more concise) punch
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  11. 6.0 |   Prefix

    Melodic twists and vocal acrobatics
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  12. 5.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    Still Living is barely alive, a mess of common composition tropes and overwrought drama
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  13. 4.0 |   DIY

    For the most part, 'Still Living' is a long journey which creeps along at a frustrating pace
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