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| 3 by Rolling Stone |
The full-length debut from this Brooklyn trio suggests a cross between Bloc Party and the band's tourmates Hot Hot Heat. Singer-guitarist Keith Murray switches between a lovelorn Brit swoon and twitch... |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Even though With Love And Squalor quickly ingratiates itself, some of its best parts reveal themselves over time. |
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| n/a by www.eonline.com |
With Love and Squalor certainly won't change pop music as we know it, but it packs surprisingly huge melodies and shamelessly danceable beats. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
With Love and Squalor is pretty much everything you've come to expect from neo-post-punk music: disco beats, prominent basslines, and those ever-angular guitars, all playing under some clipped vocals that have a distinctly British cast to them. And yet, interspersed among the more-of-the-same is a sense of more recent rock history. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
Most of these tracks have hooks aimed straight for your jugular, but "Can't Lose" shows the band could go even farther with a little restraint. |
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| n/a by www.slantmagazine.com |
Despite losing some steam towards the finish, With Love And Squalor marks this threesome as a band worth watching. |
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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
By no means have We Are Scientists made a great record, but it shows enough promise to make us believe that it might just be possible in the future. |
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| n/a by www.lostatsea.net |
For 80s nostalgia freaks, you might find that We Are Scientists have a few things in common with The Cure, and you might find that charming. But that’ll tide you over only so long before you realize this is nothing more than a major label trying to play catch-up by signing somebody who sounds like the flavor-of-the-month. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
Much of With Love and Squalor is like your old coat rack: You know where the hooks are going to be even in your sleep. |
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| 7 by Aftonbladet |
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| 7 by Metica |
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