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- Summary: The debut album for the British rock band led by Dan Devine includes influences from heavy metal and hard rock bands.
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- Record Label: One Little Indian
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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May 15, 2012In sticking two fingers up at both their detractors and Dalston, they've crafted one of the most viscerally engaging British rock albums in years.
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May 2, 2012Capped with Dan Devine's vocals – a scream as angry as it is distraught – this is despair with a backbeat, and punk as it should be: courageously self-destructive.
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Jul 2, 2012Better Living remains a repetitive, tonally monotonous album. But its a repetitiousness which works to further evoke a life of spirit-crushing routine, while reinforcing the idea of a permanent headache.
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May 2, 2012As opening statements go, Better Living is comprehensive and, as a hardcore punk album, it is extremely successful.
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Kerrang!May 21, 2012The fury here comes from an ominous intensity and oppressive claustrophobia. And that makes this album raw, anarchic, bleak and enjoyably nasty. [45 May 2012, p.53]
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May 2, 2012Raw, exhilarating and completely mystifying.
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MojoMay 2, 2012Much of Better Living recalls that time when the ugly end of post-Crass anarcho punk segued into the metallic sounds of grindcore... when melody seemed bourgeois and energy was the most valued commodity. [May 2012, p.92]
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