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FIDLAR

FIDLAR

FIDLAR

The LA surf punk quartet, whose name derives from the skater phrase "fuck it dog life's a risk", with their debut album

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Mom & Pop
UK Release date
04/02/2013
US Release date
22/01/2013
  1. 10.0 |   Art Rocker

    No matter what innovations occur, some close to the knuckle rock’n’roll just can’t be beat
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  2. 9.0 |   The Fly

    Oozing more nihilistic youthful abandonment than anyone since Black Lips, their manifesto sounds pretty appealing from here
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  3. 9.0 |   DIY

    Never has the putrid stench of house parties – stale lager, weed, sweat – smelled so exciting
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  4. 8.5 |   Prefix

    The logical genius at play in FIDLAR: Risk starts to lose its meaning when it becomes your life. What’s there to fear?
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  5. 8.3 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    Each track on their excellent self-titled debut is a bubbly slice of smart, spare, moshpit-ready pop-punk that’ll earworm its way into your brain within three seconds of your pressing play
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  6. 8.0 |   Spin

    fast because it has to be, sloppy because it's the best they could manage, debauched because what the hell else is there to do?
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  7. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    One of the sleaziest (and catchiest) punk rock records in recent memory
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  8. 8.0 |   The 405

    An album of riotous fun and raunchy debauchery
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  9. 8.0 |   Q

    They race through these 14 tracks like they're fighting their way out of a party. Print edition only

  10. 8.0 |   NME

    An electrifying, intensely fun album
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  11. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    If you’re feeling amoral, drunk, self-loathing, hungover… give FIDLAR a try. F-ck it, dog. Life’s a risk
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  12. 7.9 |   The AU Review

    If this record was over produced or polished with multiple overdubs and tracking it would be bland and lose all the elements that make it so enjoyable
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  13. 7.6 |   Paste Magazine

    Teenagers will eat it up, and the rest can appreciate from a distance
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  14. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    Wwith flakes of Rocket from the Crypt, early Cheap Trick, Distillers, and others flashing and fading from song to song, this record plays as easy as a pack-a-day habit
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  15. 7.4 |   AltSounds

    FIDLAR deliver an instant buzz that peters out just as quickly as it came on, leaving you with blurry memories of how much fun it was while it lasted
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  16. 7.0 |   Pitchfork

    The quartet's self-titled debut is about today-- being young, broke, drunk, ecstatic, and not worrying too much about what happens next
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  17. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    What Black Flag might've sounded like if they'd gone through a Bakersfield country phase
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  18. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    The songs may be brisk, but there is often the sense that the band have spread themselves to thinly
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  19. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Isn’t going to reshape anyone’s idea of what is possible with guitars, but it shows how fun they can be
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  20. 6.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    They are the kinds of guys you’d want to party with, and their album is much the same
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  21. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Cheap Beer’s magnificent happy hour glee may be the keeper for many, but it’s tracks such as Max Can’t Surf, No Waves and Paycheck that will really get you humming
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  22. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Imagine the Vaccines' Wreckin' Bar (Ra Ra Ra) relocated to a graffitied half-pipe and dusted liberally with whatever the Ramones were having
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  23. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    All that it has going for it is the promise of adolescent wit, and even in that regard it completely fails to deliver
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  24. 4.0 |   BBC

    Loutish, two-dimensional debut
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