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9.0
89203
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
With nary a crack across the entire album, Bonar’s weaving of multiple indie rock subgenres – alt-country, dream pop, punk – is tight as it gets
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8.0
89723
8.0 |
American Songwriter
These songs are so powerfully melodic, it’s difficult not to get swept into the world of an artist who is more than ready for her time in the spotlight
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8.0
89115
8.0 |
All Music
These lyrics, Bonar's somewhat sullen delivery, her knack for melodies and phrasing, and the full-band sound she's grown into work together for a set of songs that stick and hold up to repeat plays
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8.0
89116
8.0 |
Evening Standard
She is simply a wonderful songwriter, with a rare gift for a moody hook that calls to mind a less comatose Beach House, or a punkier Aimee Mann
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8.0
89119
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
More than anything, it showcases Bonar’s ability to write simple yet catchy melodies and sweet hooks that function like dopamine and float through the mind like a warm summer breeze
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8.0
89120
8.0 |
The Irish Times
A taut collection of scuzzy alternative pop/rock that tugs its forelock to the charming oddness of Twin Peaks, the rigours of post- punk, and the resonance of 1960s pop
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8.0
89135
8.0 |
The FT
The quality of Bonar’s lyrics elevates them, bittersweet verses about ageing
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8.0
89139
8.0 |
Q
This is a wonderful record - involving and irresistible. Print edition only
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8.0
89140
8.0 |
Mojo
Fine and discerningly lean album she has long threatened to make. Print edition only
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7.0
89443
7.0 |
Uncut
Done with plenty of panache and bad-girl swagger. Print edition only
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6.8
89114
6.8 |
Pitchfork
A brisk half-hour of barbed power-pop tunes that sting so sweetly that it’s only after the fact you consider you might need a tetanus shot
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6.0
89117
6.0 |
The Guardian
Whether Bonar’s songs are distinctive enough to leave a mark there, though, is not quite so certain
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6.0
89118
6.0 |
The Independent
Haley Bonar animates these quandaries through simple, skeletal beats, scrubbed or scuffling guitars, and haunted harmonies in the manner of her mentors Low, with jangly, flanged textures adding a pleasing shoegazey touch to some tracks
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