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9.0
135737
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Most tracks hover around the two-minute mark. In a blur of warming guitars, they make their point, dust themselves off, and move on to meet a new challenge
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8.8
135738
8.8 |
Paste Magazine
The band's sophomore album takes the bedrock of DIY community and turns it into an expressive and foundational shoegaze triumph
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8.8
135812
8.8 |
Spectrum Culture
There’s a moment when this feels like something you’ve never heard before. But then that feeling shifts into one of recognition: you have heard this before, but it’s been a while. And you didn’t realize until now just how much you’d missed it
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8.5
135907
8.5 |
Under The Radar
Cartwheel is a big, bright, beautiful album
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8.4
135739
8.4 |
Pitchfork
Will Anderson amplifies everyday heartbreak with towering shoegaze and supersized power-pop anthems that demand to be played loud
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8.0
135740
8.0 |
Exclaim
Simultaneously modern and nostalgic, a hard rocking band that you can lose yourself in, Hotline TNT have made a record that defies time and space
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8.0
135742
8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
Cartwheel would be a boring album if Anderson resigned himself to guilt, indolence, or hopelessness. But he refuses to allow misery to swallow him
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7.4
135813
7.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
It's hard to be overly harsh on the band for getting too hung up on a good thing, even if there's a missing something holding Cartwheel back from knockout excellence
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6.0
135741
6.0 |
Mojo
Though Anderson buries his voice and words in the maelstrom, his declared (if not immediately) apparent) theme of a constantly thwarted search for "true love" seems right at home in shoegazing's characteristic marriage of bliss and anxiety. Print edition only
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