Reviews of Nerve Up by Lonelady, collected by Any Decent Music

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Nerve Up

Debut of 80s-inspired minimal electro pop from Julie Campbell, the singer tipped to be this year's Lady Gaga

Critics average rating: 7.4
Label: V2
Release date: 22/02/2010

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9.0 | NME

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8.0 | The Skinny

The scratchy funk guitars on highlight Intuition bring back Devo, and the rest of the album is packed with perfectly pitched outsider pop
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8.0 | Q

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8.0 | State

Campbell has forged her own sound in an increasingly uniform world of modern music through repetition and a strict lack of instrumental embellishments. As a result, Nerve Up is refreshing, enigmatic, rabid, nostalgic and something new all at once
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8.0 | The Music Fix

This is a unique and thrilling album. Her sparse instrumentation and vocal style may well have echoes of the past, but these influences fuse together to create something entirely of her own making
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8.0 | The Quietus

At first, driven completely by the past’s short, sharp shocks, it soon leaves behind the shackles of the city in which it was made, and becomes its own perfect, peculiar creature
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7.7 | Pitchfork

When she slashes a pick across her guitar strings, there's no way to avoid using a word like "sharp" and "angular" in describing what emerges
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7.0 | music OMH

There may be one or two moments where Nerve Up lacks focus, but for the most part this is an exciting album from an intriguing talent
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6.0 | The Irish Times

When Nerve Up jangles, it does so with a magnificent panache that will draw you back again and again
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6.0 | Uncut

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6.0 | Drowned In Sound

May not share the confidence of Juliet Campbell’s hometown, but it nevertheless stands as a fairly promising debut; and as further credence that Manchester remains a creative hub
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