by
The Wombats
- Record Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
- Release Date: Nov 5, 2007
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The album, like their live set, is shot through with fun, infectious wit and a desire to create perfect pop while not taking themselves too seriously.
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The trio can't sustain this energy and inventiveness over the entire album.
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By total accident they seem to have stumbled upon the perfect formula for the indie-rock disco anthem, and for this they should be lauded.
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Despair rules on this Liverpool threesome's crackling debut, wrapping loneliness in spiffy power pop.
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A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation is by no means a bad album, but at the same time it’s hard to see just what all the fuss is about.
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Q MagazineThis debut has enough catchy cheap thrils. [Dec 2007, p.124]
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Their debut album may not be breaking any new ground in the world of rock'n'roll, but the three-piece don't half know their way around a catchy melody.
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UncutBest enjoyed with your brain set to simmer, it's harmlessly high-octane fun. [Dec 2007, p.119]
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And though their passable guitar parts-- all choppy downstrokes and wiry, insistent clangs-- lose their exuberance as the record stretches on, for at least the album’s first six tracks, they are played with such adolescent gusto that it's hard not to be won over.
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Under The RadarIt's basically the same stuff over and over again, but never with the same impact as the first three. [Summer 2008, p.90]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 25
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Mixed: 3 out of 25
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Negative: 1 out of 25
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