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Be Your Own King

Concrete Knives

Be Your Own King

Debut album of pop rock from the French five piece famed for their energetic live shows

ADM rating[?]

6.4

Label
Cooperative Music
UK Release date
18/02/2013
US Release date
19/02/2013
  1. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    The Concrete Knives will be a nice addition to the Bella Union family as they fit right in by not fitting in, instead, carving their own path while instructing us to do the same
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  2. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    It’s exuberant, lively in most parts and features a whole raft of musical styles with the underpinning of an urgent need to keep a rhythm going
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  3. 8.0 |   The 405

    They're wholeheartedly fun with an incessant joy for life and youth
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  4. 7.0 |   All Music

    A smart, well-executed set of staccato dance-rock anthems that flirt with excess, yet never overstay their welcome
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  5. 7.0 |   Uncut

    The Caen fivesome largely dispense with language and let the treble dials do the talking. Print edition only

  6. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The earnestness and warmth of the thing succeeds in making the record almost as addictive and loveable to hear as it clearly was to perform
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  7. 6.9 |   Bowlegs

    An impressive debut with a crate-load of ideas
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  8. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Like a less wimpy Of Monsters and Men, the Caen quintet pursue a line in male/female-fronted indiepop that occasionally flirts with the solemn side of the genre
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  9. 6.0 |   The Fly

    There’s colour and youth splashed all over these songs: noodly guitars chime with steel drums
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  10. 6.0 |   DIY

    The tail end of the record does come to a bit of a standstill
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  11. 6.0 |   NME

    So chipper and catchy it comes over like an indie version of Alphabeat
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  12. 6.0 |   Q

    French indie collective attempt to shout you into submission. Print edition only

  13. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Stakes a claim for quirk-pop supremacy. Print edition only

  14. 3.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Melody rich, this album is in fact too much so and will leave you feeling bloated on its sickly candy
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