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10.0
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10.0 |
musicOMH
WU LYF are a band to celebrate, a DIY tour de force, and their first album deserves a place of reverence in the modern indie-rock canon
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9.5
28003
9.5 |
The 405
The wealth of material and confidence in the album cannot fail to convert the doubters to the cult of WU LYF
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9.1
29080
9.1 |
Beats Per Minute
One of the most striking vocal dynamics in music right now
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9.0
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9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Go Tell Fire to the Mountain and WU LYF by extension soar on how excitingly singular they are
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8.4
28503
8.4 |
Pitchfork
A record of exhilarating expanse and passion that sounds like indie rock and yet feels way bigger
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8.0
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8.0 |
AU Review
It’s not a perfect album, but it’s full of some truly fascinating, moving and compelling moments
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8.0
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8.0 |
State
Their debut is essentially ten versions of one song. Admittedly, that song just happens to be a cascading and brilliantly evocative swirling rock song so they just about get away with it
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Fly
What they do is not too far from any number of straightforward bands, they just do it so much better
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Guardian
It rollercoasts from haunting to sad to simply exhilarating, and never loses a thrilling feeling that it could all go anywhere at any moment
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8.0
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8.0 |
Evening Standard
The secret's out: WU LYF are 2011's most exciting new band
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8.0
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8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Epic rock in an Arcade Fire vein
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8.0
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8.0 |
NME
WU LYF have neither been crushed by hype nor lost to indifference
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
There are references to Spiritualized in the texture of its organs, to The Verve in the spacey arms-aloft delivery, and to Tom Waits in Roberts's tar-deep growl. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Scotsman
Sounds like Sigur Rós on the warpath
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8.0
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8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
He’s yelling something fierce, even if we can’t understand it. But the instrumentation is dynamic, powerful, and accessible enough to balance things out
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8.0
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8.0 |
The AU Review
The underlying influence of instrumental bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and perhaps even Explosions in the Sky are mixed with vocals that only Ellery Roberts is capable of giving
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8.0
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8.0 |
Bowlegs
Structurally the songs, like the band, don’t adhere to the norm, making for wide open ventures and often epically delivered passage
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7.0
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7.0 |
DIY
An album which never loses momentum
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Quietus
A strained, overstated effort at denouncing the trivia
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6.0
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6.0 |
No Ripcord
Their arrangements are at first elating, but eventually frustrating
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6.0
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6.0 |
Mojo
Those who feel Kings Of Leon got too tame post-Sex On Fire may have just found their new favourite band. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
Effusive and engaging, Go Tell is a rush of post-Animal Collective hypno-pop
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Irish Times
It sounds fantastic the first and second time, but it’s difficult to find anything that goes beyond that basic template
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6.0
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6.0 |
Uncut
Their debut flatters to deceive. Print edition only
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5.8
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5.8 |
A.V. Club
A pretty conventional indie-rock record
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5.0
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5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This much-anticipated debut LP is in fact far duller than the fiction created about its creators
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