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9.0
75972
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
With Peanut Butter, Joanna Gruesome have raised the bar... Its vitality is infectious
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9.0
75983
9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Devoid of pretence, ‘Peanut Butter’’s sonic impulsiveness is wonderfully chaotic
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8.0
75948
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The band is tighter, more focused, and have honed their sound ever more slightly, tossing in snippets of texture and becoming even leaner
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8.0
75871
8.0 |
Uncut
Short but invigoratingly sweet. Print edition only
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8.0
75878
8.0 |
NME
The Cardiff group bend macho rock tropes with silly solos and sensitive lyrics on their powerful second album
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8.0
75879
8.0 |
The Skinny
Peanut Butter is a refreshing antidote to indie rock’s traditional sophomore slump
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8.0
75892
8.0 |
DIY
It’s an album that takes Joanna Gruesome to every possible corner of their capabilities
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8.0
75897
8.0 |
The Guardian
Ebullient, thundering and made with unabashedly 90s vigour
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8.0
76165
8.0 |
Exclaim
With ten ridiculously infectious songs clocking in at just 22 minutes, Joanna Gruesome are in no danger of wearing out their welcome
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8.0
76265
8.0 |
All Music
The manic pop thrills and noise blasts will get the blood pressure of even the most jaded indie kid racing
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8.0
76730
8.0 |
Paste Magazine
An accomplished, confident and mature approach to a type of music indebted to teenage energy
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7.5
76261
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Succeeds as a rousing and frenetic call to arms, built on the back of sunny harmonies and squealing distortion
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7.5
75970
7.5 |
Crack
Awesome stuff, and while the band don’t cover any particularly new territory for themselves here, the main question to be asked is who the fuck cares?
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7.2
76232
7.2 |
Pitchfork
Peanut Butter is a chaotic listen, powerful in parts and fragile in others, and often both at the same time
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7.0
76294
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
10 noise-pop songs in 22 minutes, all bubblegum hooks and guitar explosions
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7.0
76343
7.0 |
Spin
Joanna Gruesome have learned a lesson many seasoned acts are still trying to figure out: Say what you need to say, and always leave ‘em wanting more
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7.0
76351
7.0 |
PopMatters
Mash together lo-fi punk and fuzzy twee pop for a gleefully unbalanced follow-up to their acclaimed 2013 debut
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7.0
77091
7.0 |
Beardfood
A lovely mix-up between textured, frenetic strumming and sweetly sung vocals
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7.0
77256
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Like the original masters of Neanderthal-savant pop, The Ramones, Joanna Gruesome has proven to be entirely capable of devising rewarding full-length albums out of a single song, rewritten ad infinitum
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7.0
75874
7.0 |
The Music
Get this if it’s been a long time since you rocked’n’rolled
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6.0
75875
6.0 |
musicOMH
The band stick rather too closely to its formula, something which, for all that formula’s appeal, ultimately seems rather a shame
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6.0
75873
6.0 |
The List
Bite-size bursts of jangly noise pop gems such as ‘Honestly Do Your Worst’ and ‘I Don’t Wanna Relax’ are infectiously giddy and silly good fun
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6.0
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6.0 |
No Ripcord
Grasping the contradictions enclosed in Peanut Butter makes for an intriguing, occasionally arresting listen, but also an infuriatingly muddled one
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6.0
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6.0 |
The FT
The result has a brisk, abrasive charm: winsome indie-pop after a vigorous punk-rock sandpapering
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6.0
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6.0 |
Mojo
Marrying violent shrieking with melodious pop. Print edition only
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6.0
75870
6.0 |
Q
The songs occasionally thrill but tonally it all becomes a trifle exhausting about halfway through. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
God Is In The TV
You can see which direction the melodies are going in from a mile off, yet somehow it’s an endearing trait
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6.0
76328
6.0 |
NOW
A sameness runs from track to track
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6.0
76219
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
There's a sameness that stops Peanut Butter from truly satisfying. Something more substantial next time, please
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5.8
75953
5.8 |
Consequence Of Sound
Joanna Gruesome are pertinent to today’s music scene. They just need to focus on their goals a little longer before pouring their points onto wax
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5.5
77022
5.5 |
Spectrum Culture
For a band with a gnarly pun name and talk of making rivals, we want to hear more punk and less dreaminess
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5.0
76728
5.0 |
Gig Soup
Both this album and their debut ‘Weird Sister’ certainly signify that the group is promising, but still sound like filler to the main event
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5.0
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5.0 |
Clash
One minute it's face-melting and messy guitars, the next ear pleasing vocals from Alanna McArdle - it's an infectious mix, but one that comes to seem formulaic and repetitive over time
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4.0
75940
4.0 |
The Observer
The winning hooks that made Weird Sister so special are few and far between this time around, making for a disappointingly unremarkable set
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