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8.0
76366
8.0 |
The Guardian
Dreamy pop tunes reverberate with unlikely influences, from ELO to Duran Duran
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8.0
76367
8.0 |
The Music
A giant step forward to embrace a big, brash and bright sound that maintains a little of that guitar roughness around the edges
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8.0
76368
8.0 |
NME
The result is possibly the best - and certainly the biggest - thing they’ve ever recorded
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
The Vaccines have made their most complete album yet. Print edition only
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8.0
76392
8.0 |
Mojo
Drawing from a more contemporary sound palette, inspired chiefly by pop/R&B trailblazers like Pharrell Williams. Print edition only
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8.0
76423
8.0 |
State
These songs show a more assured identity than the band that released an album a year after it formed. At last, this may be the record to quieten the remaining anti-vaccers
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8.0
76425
8.0 |
DIY
This is a band able to play pop magpies of the highest grade
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8.0
76470
8.0 |
Digital Spy
Avoiding the temptation to deliver a continuation of rehashed ideas from their first two records, The Vaccines have used their third album to show the heights they're capable of at their most innovative
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8.0
76545
8.0 |
Gig Soup
Overall, this album competently achieves its goals; it is a simple, carefree collection of pop rock songs
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8.0
77392
8.0 |
PopMatters
In spite of its breadth or maybe because of it, the album sounds like the Vaccines’ most natural yet
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7.0
76454
7.0 |
All Music
These are candied sonic fantasias, passionate re-creations of the past with no reverence for history, and that divine, stubborn nostalgia fuels English Graffiti, turning it into the Vaccines' best record
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7.0
76464
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A record full of ideas that has much to commend it, neither a triumphant or disastrous third album, just not a great one
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6.7
76453
6.7 |
A.V. Club
All this jumping around on English Graffiti doesn’t make it disjointed. Rather, it stops the album from becoming monotonous with a new, unexpected experience on each track
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6.3
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6.3 |
Pitchfork
If anything, what English Graffiti does have that its predecessors sorely lacked is heart—the only measure of authenticity that really matters
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6.0
76365
6.0 |
The Independent
At least they’re searching for ways to refresh their outlook, an ambition beyond the one-trick likes of Palma Violets
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6.0
76386
6.0 |
The FT
The Londoners stretch themselves on album number three, swapping preppy indie songs with splashy synth-rock motifs
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6.0
76388
6.0 |
Evening Standard
The album is front-loaded with the best material, especially the heavy riffing drama of Dream Lover, but there’s enough energy and ideas to suggest that any slump is still a long way off
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5.0
76417
5.0 |
No Ripcord
Enlisting veteran Dave Friedmann to produce English Graffiti instantly brings an air of skepticism to the proceedings
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5.0
76590
5.0 |
The Digital Fix
This exhibits all the signs of an act getting famous and waking up one morning thinking they were David Bowie. English Graffiti might just be their rock 'n roll suicide
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4.5
77132
4.5 |
Spectrum Culture
The Vaccines have dropped many of their familiar early Strokes-isms and, fittingly, become their own worse version of that band’s latter-day incarnation
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4.0
76427
4.0 |
The Arts Desk
Feels like an artistic step backwards for a band who’d been so propulsive and driving
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