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8.0
35786
8.0 |
Q
The latest skinny-jeaned claimants to the indie-rock thrown long vacated by The Strokes. Print edition only
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8.0
35961
8.0 |
NME
An effortlessly brilliant debut
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8.0
35987
8.0 |
musicOMH
Howler, when at their best, produce simple, but infectious, dirty rock music that oozes confidence and a nonchalant swagger
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8.0
36042
8.0 |
The Guardian
The success of America Give Up depends entirely on the quality of the songs, and Howler have enough good ones to remind you of how good the Strokes used to be
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8.0
36076
8.0 |
The Fly
America’s next great guitar group? This is it
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7.5
36162
7.5 |
A.V. Club
America Give Up is about woo-oo-oo choruses and fuzz-laden, spiky guitar chords, and there’s nothing wrong with that
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7.5
35953
7.5 |
BBC
An album of thoroughly contagious, albeit fairly derivative, Strokes-flavoured gutter-rock
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7.0
36359
7.0 |
Rave Magazine
America Give Up is a smart, unapologetic album that will take its place admirably on the crest of the surfy, garage pop-wave thing or whatever…
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7.0
36559
7.0 |
PopMatters
Alongside the likes of the Horrors, Yuck and the Smith Westerns, there rumbles a burgeoning resistance to the dying of the rock ‘n’ roll light. In other words, comrades, we may still have a pulse
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6.0
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6.0 |
State
A pleasant piece of slacker-pop and rock n’ roll pastiche
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6.0
37371
6.0 |
The AU Review
On the whole, no new ground is being covered here, but it all seems to have the authenticity that’s required to pass muster
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6.0
36506
6.0 |
Pitchfork
A pretty typical rock group's first album. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that
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6.0
36245
6.0 |
No Ripcord
Even if this sound has been done more successfully, the reverse is also true
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6.0
36346
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
There are no real highlights: it just demands to be played in a one-er, loudly. And maybe even spun once again
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6.0
36084
6.0 |
The Observer
Howler are probably not the second coming. But they are just the sort of boys guitar pop's true believers gravitate towards. And they are so much better than those false prophets of yesteryear, the Drums
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6.0
36150
6.0 |
The Scotsman
Howler’s chances of propelling themselves beyond the middle of the league table will stand and fall on how ferociously they can put this album across live
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6.0
36067
6.0 |
Evening Standard
The angst can be wearying and they do slip into lazy Cramps territory on Pythagorean Fearem but their ball is rolling?...
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6.0
36033
6.0 |
The Irish Times
What makes Howler such a cute proposition is their dedication to the art of skilful pilfering
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6.0
35927
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Half good is not good enough
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4.0
35785
4.0 |
The Skinny
The debts to The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy and The Strokes' Is This It are so pervasive on this debut album that they obscure any sense of a band establishing their own sound
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4.0
35793
4.0 |
Uncut
Often too light and derivative to suggest they really are saviours in waiting. Print edition only
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4.0
35897
4.0 |
Bowlegs
A record that has borrowed far too much to find its own personality
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