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8.0
44925
8.0 |
NME
Whilst the big, brash choruses on ‘Enjoy It While It Lasts’ may seem completely out of place, they’re most definitely the real deal
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8.0
44956
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Spector are the band you'd get if you fed the Killers, Keane and the Strokes into a blender
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8.0
45383
8.0 |
The Quietus
These are great, smart, rushingly lovable songs. If you're finding a way not to like them, you're probably thinking while you should be listening
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8.0
45509
8.0 |
State
Spector’s magpie tendency to copy and paste from the existing canon makes for a collection of songs that are undeniably catchy, even though they aren’t doing anything particularly new or original
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7.0
45038
7.0 |
BBC
There’s just about enough here to justify Spector’s confidence
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7.0
44913
7.0 |
Clash
In these troubled come-and-go musical times, Spector are a band living in the now - and they know it. But with this first effort, it looks like their shelf life could be extended
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7.0
44942
7.0 |
Uncut
Wrapping Roxy razzamatazz in rock-solid Killers-esque indie rock'n'roll to end up near the dandy end of late Britpop. Print edition only
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7.0
44950
7.0 |
The Fly
Beneath the gobbiness, Fred MacPherson’s intentions are admirable: pinpoint the time when indie discos reached their unpretentious peak (approx 2003-2007) and make an album that distils everything they were about
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6.0
44951
6.0 |
Evening Standard
With the title of their debut album, this new London quintet seem to have an inkling of their fate as they swim against the tide, making Britpop-coloured indie rock in an age of digital dance music
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6.0
44912
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Littered with reference points ranging from The Killers to the Kaiser Chiefs via Maximo Park and back again
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6.0
44930
6.0 |
The Guardian
As the title suggests they know only too well, time isn't on Spector's side. Even so, there's enough here to make you hope they're proved wrong
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6.0
45129
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
A synthesis of pure pop that connects with listeners through ceaseless enthusiasm
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6.0
44964
6.0 |
The Scotsman
God help us if they ever get the budget to realise their overblown ambitions
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6.0
44948
6.0 |
musicOMH
A debut album that establishes Spector as a guitar pop group who hark back to the both distant and not quite so distant past
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4.0
45404
4.0 |
The Irish Times
For all Spector’s talents (frontman Fred McPherson can pen some sharp lyrics at times), they fail to convince on this occasion
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2.6
45257
2.6 |
Pitchfork
The production is full of dreadful pitch-shifts, senseless electronic filigrees, widdly guitar solos that don't fit anywhere, cavernous reverb chambers to disguise the weakness of Macpherson's toneless voice
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2.0
44944
2.0 |
Q
The sound of 2005, left in the fridge too long. Print edition only
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