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Wave Machines

Wave If You're Really There

Liverpool alt.rock act with their debut album

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6.1

Label
Neapolitan
UK Release date
15/06/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Despite slight art-rock leanings, this is a pop album, and is gloriously so. Full of little flourishes that’ll make you smile, nods to other things, mostly from the 80s, and above all it’s a lot of good fun
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  2. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Some will doubtless peg Wave Machines as zeitgeist-chasing tryhards, and at times it does all feel a little calculated. But they win you over with their sheer inventiveness, their laptop-licking love of creating sounds for their own sake,
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  3. 7.0 |   Clash

    Wave Machines’ debut album is actually a really great record brimming with good ideas, hooks, melodies and experimentation
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  4. 6.2 |   Pitchfork

    It's not what this band is saying that's particularly dumb, it's just how they're saying it.
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  5. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Not a great debut album, it is merely good, but the greatness of one or two songs in the set should hopefully buy the band enough time to deliver on their huge promise
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  6. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    This confident and razor- sharp debut demonstrates a belief in catchy melodies, zeitgeist- friendly nods to the dancefloor and quirky party tunes
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  7. 4.0 |   Clash

    Wave Machine's dreamy mindlessness, whether intentional or inadvertent, does not really sustain the album for 40 minutes
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