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Leave Me Alone

Hinds

Leave Me Alone

Debut album from the Madrid-based garage rock quartet

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7.3

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08/01/2016
US Release date
08/01/2016
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  1. 9.0 |   Gig Soup

    ‘Leave Me Alone’ has passionate moments and a raw emotional honesty that betrays their happy-go-lucky image
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  2. 9.0 |   Exclaim

    It’s contagious; every song sounds like a party, and really, isn’t that what rock and roll is all about?
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  3. 8.5 |   Art Rocker

    Hinds are youthful, fresh, fun and all of the other clichés that come with a young band who’re totally owning their self- created sound and loving every second of it
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  4. 8.3 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    It really only hopes to make you smile with smart twin harmonies and silly lyrics. On those terms, Leave Me Alone is a unqualified success
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  5. 8.3 |   Earbuddy

    You'll find Hinds' debut album very hard to leave alone
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  6. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    The album represents multiple facets of youth, and delicately takes on the helter-skelter of emotions that comes as part and parcel with such a course
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  7. 8.0 |   DIY

    True and proud of every ingredient making up their early existence, Hinds create a blueprint in how not to give a fuck
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  8. 8.0 |   The 405

    An album that brings the energy of a live show without feeling like they ignored the fact they had a studio at their disposal
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  9. 8.0 |   The FT

    Influences ring out but the foursome hammer away at them cheerfully, DIY enthusiasts in an era of Ikea flat-pack guitar bands
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  10. 8.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    Wildly more mature and diverse than most garage bands could ever really hope to be
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  11. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    An elegy for youth that’s still being lived, mistakes, triumphs and al
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  12. 8.0 |   NME

    There are few airs and graces about this band, which is one of the keys to their vitality
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  13. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    They have bags of tunes – opener Garden is loaded with 60s soul hooks, for instance – and bags of charm
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  14. 8.0 |   Crack

    It’s an album of refreshing, rousing romance and an encouraging reflection of a more confident, well-rounded Hinds as they keep on partying into 2016
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  15. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    ‘Leave Me Alone’ is an unassuming debut – the kind of record you wouldn’t think could reach the kind of following the band already has
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  16. 8.0 |   Q

    It’s impossible not to be swept up in the exuberance. Print edition only

  17. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A ramshackle celebration of the beauty in chaos and the imperfect
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  18. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    The peppiest, jauntiest, most charismatic debut you’ll likely find in the next 12 months
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  19. 7.6 |   Paste Magazine

    Leave Me Alone manages to be a nostalgic album that nevertheless lives in the moment. It’s a moment worth celebrating
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  20. 7.5 |   Pitchfork

    The best moments on Leave Me Alone occur when Cosials and Perrote are going all-out, belting together without restraint
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  21. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Spanish garage rockers have a summer-y guitar riot
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  22. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    Most impressive is the band's ability to make a tune out of the seemingly tuneless
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  23. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Hinds' debut is fuelled by an infectious lust for life. Well, that and copious amounts of Sangria
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  24. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    While Leave Me Alone has its flaws as an album, it’s the perfect summation of where Hinds find themselves at the moment
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  25. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Bratty but heartfelt. Print edition only

  26. 7.0 |   Beardfood

    Let this sympathetic release bring some sun into your winter
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  27. 6.7 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Garage rock typically relies on unhinged messiness and raw power. Hinds execute the genre’s touchstones effortlessly, without needing to replicate that stereotypical fuzz and burn
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  28. 6.0 |   Spin

    A friendly, enthusiastic album of coppery six-strings glinting in the sunlight with the more-than-occasional flat note, scuffing up the album’s already sand-blasted texture with an endearing scrappy quality
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  29. 6.0 |   God Is In The TV

    What they do incredibly well is make their lo-fi music look effortless and hedonistically fun
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  30. 6.0 |   Mojo

    A debut packed with infectious fun. Print edition only

  31. 6.0 |   All Music

    As a whole, Hinds' moxie pulls them through on this largely enjoyable debut
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  32. 6.0 |   The Observer

    Their modus operandi is shambling, unhurried garage rock projected through a lo-fi filter and topped with ragged harmonising
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  33. 6.0 |   The Music

    An amiable, likeable affair that barely riles itself from a shuffling gait
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  34. 6.0 |   FasterLouder

    On Leave Me Alone, Hinds successfully burrow their way into the patriarchal arena of rock n’ roll. But it remains to be seen, though, whether they have the capacity to really disrupt things
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  35. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    Hinds were clearly made for parties, not headphones – they’re probably best enjoyed live
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