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Rewild

Amazing Baby

Rewild

Self-produced debut from the Brooklyn-based alt-pop/rock act

ADM rating[?]

6.1

Label
V2
UK Release date
22/06/2009
  1. 8.0 |   Uncut

    A frequently startling record of no little beauty – which threatens to launch a new, esoteric generation of Williamsburg wonders
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  2. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    What Amazing Baby have managed to achieve in no uncertain terms is fuse together a vast array of influences into one smouldering cauldron and come up sounding like nothing else on planet Earth. Either the five individuals who make up the band are essentially music shop geeks steeped in encyclopaedic knowledge of every genre since The Beatles turned rock and roll's missive inside out, or they're fortunate to originate from such well-versed genes
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  3. 7.0 |   Spin

    Channeling glam, metal, punk, power pop, and experimental noise, Rewild is like a tour through a psychedelic fantasyland, featuring visions, hallucinations, and glimpses of death
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  4. 6.1 |   Pitchfork

    It might outstrip its ambition and wear its influences too blatantly, but Amazing Baby could be something special once it all clicks
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  5. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Rewild could use a little more sharp tunes but who has time for that when you're knee-deep in giant guitars and weird ambient vocalizations?
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  6. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Everything from Pulpish glam to pastoral psychedelia is given the multicoloured makeover, and yet for all its grandiosity, there's something slightly unsatisfying about Rewild
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  7. 6.0 |   NME

    Overall, you’re reminded most of those original post-punk psychedelics The Teardrop Explodes. Their frontman Julian Cope always talked a better game than he ever managed to deliver, although that didn’t stop him from being a total hero. Amazing Baby could yet be our new shamans
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  8. 3.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    The next MGMT? Only if it stands for Must Get More Tunes. Even the androgynous floppy-hair brigade deserve better than th
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