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8.0
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The Irish Times
As fine a noise pop document as you’ll hear this year
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Skinny
There’s much to love here
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8.0
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8.0 |
musicOMH
An enjoyable listen from start to finish; whilst not possessing anything in the way of a number one single, the rawness and lo-fi feel will appeal to many
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Fly
A reverb-ridden sass-pot of a thing – all fluttering eyelashes and scratchy underbelly
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8.0
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8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Cynics will doubtless reel of lists of bands that they feel have done ‘this sort of thing’ before – but that’s to completely miss the point. September Girls are doing it now, and this is an excellent debut album
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7.5
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7.5 |
The 405
In a blurry world where fuzzpop and reverby guitars are a dime a dozen, it's refreshing to have people doing something outside of the box
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7.5
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7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Cursing the Sea doesn’t deserve to be forgotten in the post-Christmas release wasteland of January come the later months of 2014
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7.0
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7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
There’s plenty of the band’s own identity on Cursing the Sea, which marks the start of what could yet be a tremendous 2014 for the quintet in deliciously dark fashion
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7.0
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Clash
The sonic palette may be familiar, but the strength of songwriting indicates that September Girls might, just might, be capable of pushing past this
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7.0
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7.0 |
NME
It's been nearly three years since the last album by Vivian Girls, and this is a more than adequate stand-in
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7.0
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7.0 |
Uncut
There is an agreeably lo-fi C86 sloppiness to much of this debut. Print edition only
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No Ripcord
But they’ve ousted their contemporaries by delivering a far more grown up proposition that signals at, here we go, a promising career
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7.0
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PopMatters
The heart of Cursing the Sea lies in tracks four through six, a trio of songs that shows the band at its money-down best
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6.0
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State
September Girls may wear their influences proudly on their collective sleeves but by the end of Cursing The Sea you realise amid all the ghosts of music past they have managed to carve out their own defiant niche
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6.0
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All Music
While the template of dark, reverb-heavy goth punk revivalism has worked well for a crop of indie bands, September Girls sound like a copy of a copy of a copy, not quite reaching the heights of their immediate predecessors, let alone the classic bands they're all aiming for
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
There's a brilliant EP in here, even if there's not quite meat enough to support a full-length
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6.0
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6.0 |
DIY
But there's a lot of fuzz. A whole lot. And at times the thick smothering of reverb-heavy feedback makes the record sound like it might've been recorded down a well
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5.0
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5.0 |
The Digital Fix
This is a swirling, choppy affair that suggests they've yet to find their sea legs
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4.0
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4.0 |
Earbuddy
Cursing the Sea is engaging at times, even if it recycles through a limited amount of themes, but it does nothing to step out of its comfort zone
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