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8.0
62195
8.0 |
Q
Drowners wear their influences with pride but their charm is all their own. Print edition only
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7.0
62069
7.0 |
NME
Suggests a band digging back further than the 90s Britpop revival, into the heart of the jangly 80s
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6.5
62047
6.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Much of the record comes and goes without any real conviction, with nigh on every song containing some clichéd lyric about experiencing love which shan’t be changing anyone’s life
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6.0
62135
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Crisp, bright Anglo-Eighties guitar pop
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6.0
62049
6.0 |
The Independent
Their brusque punk-pop style and his louche intonation suggest a tidier version of the Libertine
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6.0
62064
6.0 |
DIY
It's fun, and fun is sometimes just about enough
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5.8
62046
5.8 |
Pitchfork
Drowners can’t inspire too much ill will or really any kind of strong reaction and that’s fair enough: it doesn’t deal in hot, dirty sex or catastrophic breakups, mostly drunken hookups and easy letdowns
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5.0
63202
5.0 |
FasterLouder
There are still some great hooks and plenty of intelligent arrangements, but Drowners is not the sort of album that lives long in the memory
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4.0
62048
4.0 |
The Guardian
It's apparent Drowners' presiding influence is actually the Smiths, but in common with so many groups inspired by that most individual band, they lack what made the Smiths special
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4.0
62147
4.0 |
PopMatters
It’s ultimately too much of a junior pantomime, a clumsily composed valentine to genuinely extraordinary records. Beneath its peacock plumage, preening, posturing and ‘performance’ there lies too little imagination
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3.0
62045
3.0 |
musicOMH
Drowners is a fun little record, if you want to get all patronizing about it, but it’s difficult to get any further than that because of its staggering unoriginality
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