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A Brief History Of Love

The Big Pink

A Brief History Of Love

Hotly anticipated debut album of noise pop from London duo Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell

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6.8

Label
4AD
UK Release date
22/09/2009
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  1. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    They say timing is everything. Well, it has been a long wait for a British album like this, the kind that transcends age group appeal and inspires cool kids to form bands and geeky kids to lose themselves in music's history
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  2. 8.2 |   Pitchfork

    There's the part of us that wants to be overwhelmed - A Brief History of Love is a study in the enormity of sound doing just that, each reverbed kick drum, phasers-on-stun guitar, and wastrel vocal refuting the idea that you need to talk about the passion to express it.
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  3. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    ...spectacularly updating the indie-rock of Echo and the Bunnymen and My Bloody Valentine with heavy-duty computerised beats
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  4. 8.0 |   NME

    Beneath the dissonance, the artful posturing and the pop hooks is something far more enduring: these guys have got a soul and they’re not afraid to bare it.
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  5. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    A dazzlingly good debut, carefully mixing guitars and electronics in densely layered and carefully textured songs.
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  6. 8.0 |   Q

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  7. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    ...a solid and sporadically impressive debut that next time could maybe stand to step out of the studio and let the raw force of their music stand on its own
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  8. 7.0 |   The Observer

    ...a debut album which, for all its studio fidgets, is admirably straightforward - heavy-duty pop delivered at earbleed volume
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  9. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    For an outfit who've been heralded as the industry's great white hopes of 2009, The Big Pink undoubtedly have several moments of pure genius here, but ultimately, A Brief History Of Love lacks the consistency to elevate it from the status of a good debut album to that of a great one.
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  10. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Their dystopian beats, dark electronics and distorted guitars have been heard before,
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  11. 6.0 |   Mojo

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  12. 6.0 |   Eye Weekly

    The Big Pink evoke The Verve’s biggest hit so wantonly that it ought to inspire a lawsuit from Richard Ashcroft and co., had their own song’s Rolling Stones swipe not already raised the ire of Allen Klein’s legal counsel
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  13. 2.0 |   The Quietus

    A bloodless, guiltless sop of a record that is thoroughly bereft of heart and, yes, of love.
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