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A nudge in the wrong direction and this would be too saccharine for comfort.
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Breaking Up may sound tinny, it may grate occasionally, and vocalist Russell The Disaster's voice may well get on your nerves after a while - yet you'll be hard pressed to find another record this year with as much soul and honesty as this one.
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Mojo[They] stand apart, wedding guitar-free sounds to refreshingly vulnerable sentiment. [Mar 2006, p.102]
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Under The RadarChildishly simplistic, yet compulsively catchy, pop tunes that are unabashedly British. [#14]
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The happy-go-lucky, Casio-plated sheen surrounding their elegantly crafted pop songs disguises what are, by and large, tales of bitterness, regret and longing for things that are impossibly out of reach.
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But just before sheen threatens to turn to smarm, The Research acknowledge twee works best when a dark side lurks just beneath the surface.
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Q MagazineTheir break-up songs are built around a dynamic of sweet boy-girl harmonies and bursts of swearing. [Mar 2006, p.109]
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Unapologetically twee.
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[Their] debut, a scrappy collection of twee garage-pop, isn’t bad. It is half-bad, though. Which isn’t to say that every song isn’t good—they’re just fine, the emphasis on ambivalence.
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UncutWhether you love or hate The Research will depend upon your tolerance for cheap keyboards. [Mar 2006, p.103]
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But this album isn't just really gratingly saccharine, yet simultaneously bland, it's wilfully so.
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AdrianMar 26, 2006
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NickMar 9, 2006