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8.3
62638
8.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Dupuis’s bittersweet, teasing vocals feel like the gorgeous, blue, and brutally cold day after it snows three feet
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8.0
62634
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Alternately broods and roars, favoring loping, bass-heavy verses torn open by fuzzy, full-throttle choruses, while always maintaining a distinct melodicism. Real Hair retains all these hallmarks from prior outings, though tinted a shade more poppy
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8.0
62637
8.0 |
NME
Works like a oujia board: dangerous, addictive fun with the potential for unwelcome answers
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8.0
62694
8.0 |
The 405
Real Hair resolutely refuses to collapse under the weight of its own wordiness. It's clever, sure, but it's high-grade, pedal-hopping rock music by the same token
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7.6
62635
7.6 |
Pitchfork
Takes the gloriously sloppy, haphazardly intricate Speedy Ortiz of Major Arcana and turns it bite-size, sharpening the focus without sanding off the edges
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7.5
62639
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
Real Hair is dense, and hot, and lovely. It contains more musical ideas in one place than anything Speedy Ortiz has done before. Guitar nerds will have fun. Poetry nerds, too
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7.0
62640
7.0 |
All Music
Speedy Ortiz keep the tension of their earlier work and arguably add to it by giving the pop side of their musical tug-of-war more pull
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7.0
62636
7.0 |
PopMatters
It’s an impressive breadth of sounds for only 13 minutes of music and another impressive step forward for Speedy Ortiz
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