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10.0
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10.0 |
The Irish Times
Greatness, grit, gravity and gleeful – Girl Band’s debut album is all of these and more
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10.0
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10.0 |
Gig Soup
It’s hard not to be impressed by a debut of such depth, scope and beauty
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9.4
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9.4 |
Paste Magazine
A startling upending of any and all expectations you would dare place upon a modern rock group
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9.0
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Loud And Quiet
Nothing – or nobody – else sounds like Girl Band at the moment and they seem to relish in their own demented yet deeply exhilarating creations
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9.0
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9.0 |
Exclaim
Just musical enough to swallow, and just raucous enough to rattle your bones, Girl Band's Holding Hands with Jamie represents all the harmful and healing qualities of noise
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8.5
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8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It would not be hyperbolic to state that there are very few bands (if any) currently like Girl Band
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8.5
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8.5 |
The Quietus
Originality may be hard to conjure but personality is a different matter altogether. Girl Band have it in spades, and on Holding Hands With Jamie, it feels great
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8.5
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8.5 |
The 405
It's rare to come across an album that allows you only the faintest impression of its workings while simultaneously impacting you in a profound way
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8.5
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Spectrum Culture
A dense, damn near impenetrable album of noise, feedback and screams
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8.3
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8.3 |
Earbuddy
Noise rock, substance-induced tantrums, and gobs of NutellaNoise rock, substance-induced tantrums, and gobs of Nutella
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8.0
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8.0 |
The FT
The most ferocious break-up album of the year
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8.0
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8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Senses pummelled and synapses shredded, Holding Hands With Jamie represents anything but an easy ride
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8.0
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Mojo
Girl Band play ugly noise with a charisma and energy to drag them from the no wave ghetto. Print edition only
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8.0
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Spin
Girl Band are always in control, even at their most raucous, but Holding Hands With Jamie excels when the focus is more on tension than release
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8.0
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State
Controlled chaos defines Girl Band’s oeuvre
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8.0
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PopMatters
Documents four musicians in flux together, their increasing ability to rely on one another allowing them to bother less with outside expectations
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Skinny
Either the greatest thing you’ll hear all year, or will give you a migraine; quite possibly both
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8.0
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The Guardian
While the album is unpredictable, it is never chaotic: just as you think things might spiral out of control there is a pause, or a change of tempo or phrasing
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8.0
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No Ripcord
The finale isn’t particularly grand, but Holding Hands With Jamie does much to harness the passion of "left of the dial" indie rock while paying attention to now,
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8.0
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Crack
A hellishly noisy odyssey in vicious rock and roll
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
These nine songs often build and build only to splutter out in a last, exhausted gasp
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8.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
A remarkable debut album. It ticks off plenty of familiar noise-rock boxes, but Girl Band massages them into a whole that feels authentically their own
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7.8
80539
7.8 |
Pitchfork
It’s hard to think of another guitar-based band conjuring fear this exhilarating and volume this rapturous
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7.5
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7.5 |
Under The Radar
A relentless half-hour of grizzled sonic thrills, and Girl Band scorch their songs with blistering guitar, percussive bombast, and a stabbing sense of humor
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7.5
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7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
The quartet do an impressive job of teetering on the edge of chaos the same way a lot of life does
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Irish post-punks bring the roiling noise on a pitch-dark debut
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6.0
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6.0 |
musicOMH
Girl Band possess enormous potential and big, big things look to be lying just around the corner for the Dubliners
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6.0
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6.0 |
Q
The levity of the words is the perfect counterbalance to the fury of their playing. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
All Music
The album has a couple songs that stretch out to seven or eight minutes, allowing the band to fully explore demented, off-balance grooves that hammer the listener into submissio
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6.0
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6.0 |
DIY
This deadly work could’ve forced an apocalypse if delivered with more conviction
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