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- Summary: 'Breaking Up' is the English trio's debut album.
- Record Label: At Large
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 11
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Mixed: 5 out of 11
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Negative: 1 out of 11
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A nudge in the wrong direction and this would be too saccharine for comfort.
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Mojo[They] stand apart, wedding guitar-free sounds to refreshingly vulnerable sentiment. [Mar 2006, p.102]
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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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Unapologetically twee.
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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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But this album isn't just really gratingly saccharine, yet simultaneously bland, it's wilfully so.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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NickMar 9, 2006
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AdrianMar 26, 2006
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