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10.0
50865
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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9.0
51054
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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9.0
50495
9.0 |
DIY
Never has the putrid stench of house parties – stale lager, weed, sweat – smelled so exciting
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8.5
50778
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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8.3
49999
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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8.0
50112
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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8.0
49998
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
One of the sleaziest (and catchiest) punk rock records in recent memory
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8.0
50304
8.0 |
The 405
An album of riotous fun and raunchy debauchery
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8.0
50354
8.0 |
Q
They race through these 14 tracks like they're fighting their way out of a party. Print edition only
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8.0
50361
8.0 |
NME
An electrifying, intensely fun album
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8.0
50370
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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7.9
51917
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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7.6
49996
7.6 |
Paste Magazine
Teenagers will eat it up, and the rest can appreciate from a distance
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7.5
49995
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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7.4
50769
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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7.0
50105
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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7.0
50269
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
What Black Flag might've sounded like if they'd gone through a Bakersfield country phase
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7.0
50604
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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7.0
50706
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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6.5
50714
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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6.0
50768
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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6.0
50467
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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6.0
49997
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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4.0
50068
4.0 |
BBC
Loutish, two-dimensional debut
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