Inside Your Guitar

It Hugs Back

Inside Your Guitar

Debut album of sonic indie rock from the English band

ADM rating[?]

6.0

Label
4AD
UK Release date
06/04/2009
  1. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    As with fellow Georgians the B-52s, their best songs play like should-be novelty hits.
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  2. 7.0 |   Clash

    Ostensibly, an indie-rock record that wears its influences – Dinosaur Jr, Belle And Sebastian, Yo La Tengo, Wilco, My Bloody Valentine – quite visibly.
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  3. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    A confident debut by a band that can only keep on improving. Maybe ""reassuring"" and ""endearing"" really is the new rock n' roll.
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  4. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    It’s music that requires a few listens before all the nuances reveal themselves. If you’re willing to make the effort, you will be handsomely rewarded. But for many—namely those who find It Hugs Back’s fragile sound too breakable—that “if” may be too large to overcome.
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  5. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Talked up as successors to My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth, thanks to their predilection for building layer upon layer of guitars and organ into a woolly filter.
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  6. 5.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Calls to mind a mellow Jesus and Mary Chain or a less up-for-it Stone Roses.
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  7. 4.0 |   The List

    Ethereal mumblings and wistful sighs do not make for an engaging band, which is a shame, because they create an intriguing atmosphere on occasion.
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