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The New Life

Girls Names

The New Life

Second album of surf rock and noise pop from the Belfast quartet

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Tough Love
UK Release date
18/02/2013
US Release date
12/03/2013
  1. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    One of this year's most ungainly beautiful records
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  2. 8.5 |   BBC

    Girls Names have reinvented their sound and come up smelling of roses
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  3. 8.0 |   The Fly

    Listening to this album is like rapidly consuming a bottle of gin and then refilling it with your own tears
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  4. 8.0 |   The 405

    They've come a long way, and have the potential to go further still
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  5. 8.0 |   Q

    Darker, atmospheric turn from Belfast foursome. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   All Music

    Masters of crafting modern psychedelia with dark swirls instead of day-glo, and bad trips instead of sunshine days
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  7. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    The record's rhythmic nuance and towering structures represents a natural next step for a band that's worked hard to revise its sonic palette since its debut
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  8. 7.3 |   Paste Magazine

    A unique template of dark, post-punk, garage-y rock, often controlled and sometimes unleashed, that marks The New Life as one of the better albums released so far this year
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  9. 7.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    Girls Names have crafted a second album that isn’t a mere play for indie credibility, but rather one that stands as a thoroughly constructed effort to reach towards new creative heights
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  10. 6.5 |   Pitchfork

    The type of spiky stuff that turned the word "angular" into one of rock criticism's greatest clichés
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  11. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    How much you enjoy it will largely depend on how many Joy Division albums you have in your record collection
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  12. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Gone is the clangy effervescence of Dead To Me, and in its stead is a moody wall of stormclouds that just won’t break
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  13. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    The New Life manages the not inconsiderable feat of presenting an established band in a fresh, often invigorating way
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