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Weird Sister

Joanna Gruesome

Weird Sister

The Cardiff-based five-piece with a debut album of noise pop, dream pop and shoegaze

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Fortuna Pop! / Slumberland
UK Release date
09/09/2013
US Release date
10/09/2013
  1. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    A deeply assured, caustically playful album, which brims with fierce aspersions and sour intelligence, but does so with humour, a stringent ethical conscience, and substantial melodic exuberance
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  2. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    There’s an underlying punk attitude that comes out of the woodwork on the likes of Secret Surprise which allows Joanna Gruesome to neatly sidestep the majority of their grubby dream-pop contemporaries
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  3. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    While this record does act as an all-encompassing lecture in Eighties/Nineties outsider-indie, its execution transcends its constituent parts to create something that is strikingly unique under its surface
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  4. 8.0 |   DIY

    Sometimes gloriously messy, sometimes just simply glorious, it is probably the most fun you'll have all year rhyming with harpists
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  5. 8.0 |   All Music

    One that noise pop fans will treasure, crummy name and all
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  6. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    A triumph
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  7. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    The well-past-promising Weird Sister - a deeply passionate, impossibly noisy twee record - just feels like the sort of thing you spend months and years with
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  8. 7.4 |   Bowlegs

    Their fuzz coloured pop is an absolute joy – it sprints with the ferocity of Punk while play-fighting with indie-pop abandonment
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  9. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    It may be patchwork, but the Cardiff five-piece end up with a sound that’s more than the sum of its parts
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  10. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Despite the cheeky gag of their band name, they're deceptively tough stuff
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  11. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    Can be a little grating or samey at points, but overall it's refreshing to hear a '90s revival band that actually has the furious lo-fi energy of the period nailed
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  12. 7.0 |   Slant Magazine

    The playful and passionate Weird Sister is the natural, exhilarating sound of influences—shoegaze, hardcore, riot grrrl—being assembled in new ways
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  13. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Although it’s a short album, the feeling persists that Joanna Gruesome may be best experienced in short, sharp shocks
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  14. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Leave a trail of sonic pile-ups too often both predictable and over-familiar. Print edition only


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