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8.5
94722
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
They’re the kind of band we need right now and Swear I’m Good At This is their rallying cry
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8.5
94933
8.5 |
The 405
Swear triumphantly signals you can have party-poppers of fun while tackling the most pertinent and solemn concerns
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8.4
94721
8.4 |
Paste Magazine
Diet Cig has built its reputation on Luciano’s unmatched concert energy, and that comes through in the headbanging bliss of tracks like “Blob Zombie” and “Barf Day”
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8.3
94780
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Diet Cig's deceptively simple fuzz-pop on Swear I'm Good At This is retro, but its themes are ageless
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8.0
94783
8.0 |
All Music
The snappy running time of Swear I'm Good at This means all 12 tracks breeze past in an instant, as if you're sprinting straight through the emotional core of vocalist Alex Luciano, grinning maniacally as you run
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8.0
94791
8.0 |
DIY
Thrashy and rolling gleefully around in its own melodrama
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8.0
94802
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
The New York boy/girl duo specialize in lovesick fuzz-pop on their fantastic debut album
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8.0
94749
8.0 |
Exclaim
An assured debut with a unique voice, one that finds humour in catharsis and catharsis in humour
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8.0
94811
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This brilliant debut sees Diet Cig establishing a complex, nuanced voice with a subtle uniqueness, a fierce emotionality and a great sense of fun
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8.0
94720
8.0 |
The Skinny
As someone who couldn’t play her instrument before starting Diet Cig, Luciano’s ramshackle sing-alongs very much fall in the Best Coast mould of deceptively simple lyrics and power-chord strums but display more sensitivity than snark
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8.0
94724
8.0 |
Mojo
It's clever, funny, confrontational and touching. Print edition only
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8.0
94726
8.0 |
The Music
Joyful and refreshing, both in timbre and taste
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8.0
95015
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Sure, it’s all been done before and it bloody well better be done again because this is what fuels great rock music
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7.8
94725
7.8 |
Earbuddy
While the songs are serious, Luciano does an excellent job of giving them levity
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7.0
94742
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
A bold debut that triumphs in its brave and confrontational lyricism
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7.0
94991
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Diet Cig's candidness is enthralling
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7.0
95091
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Places Diet Cig along strong contemporaries like Frankie Cosmos, Japanese Breakfast and Mitski in many ways, but doesn’t quite land the band in the upper echelons of this particular pantheon
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6.0
94723
6.0 |
Uncut
They've mastered the basics, but still have miles to go. Print edition only
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5.1
94807
5.1 |
Pitchfork
On their debut LP, the eager duo fumbles that which makes indie pop so meaningful. It becomes a lively collection of empty gestures
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