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The Same Crooked Worm

Vatican Cellars

The Same Crooked Worm

Melancholic acoustic folk and chamber pop on the debut release from Oxford-based Piney Gir guitarist Simon Hughes and Californian cohort The Birthday Girl

Label
Where It's At Is Where You Are
UK Release date
08/11/2010
  1. 6.5 |   The 405

    There’s nothing here too grandiose or too terrible. It’s slightly above average due to the musicianship at work
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  2. 6.0 |   Mojo

    A high-minded record that doesn't quite hit the heights. Print edition only

  3. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    For the most the music fails to engage with their trauma in any meaningful way. Instead it just sort of plods along with the same pedestrian folk-pop temperament
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  4. 4.0 |   The Skinny

    It’s politely tuneful but in need of something extra – grit, quirks, anything to ruffle The Vatican Cellars’ immaculate but dull plumage
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