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Feb 9, 2011Just after returning from a European tour in support of their breakout debut, Girls upgraded their recording equipment and chose six of their favorite new songs for the surprisingly conventional-sounding Broken Dreams Club EP.
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Feb 9, 2011It's an exhilarating taster of things to come.
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Feb 9, 2011Though he can be likened to a number of classic singers, some of the all-time greats might I add, his work is his own and ultimately original in its identity.
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Feb 9, 2011This EP sounds, in many ways, like a showcase of new equipment and technology, proof that White just might be one of the best pop producers working right now. However, the songs might be too cerebral, lacking the brevity, structural simplicity, and dare I say petulance that made "Lust For Life" so easy to fall so hard for.
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Feb 9, 2011Broken Dreams Club may only be an EP, but if it's any indication of the future of the band, then Girls will sophomore soar, rather than slump.
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Feb 9, 2011It's a scatterbrainedness that makes Girls endearing and frustrating at the same time, and it's pertinent to remember that Elvis Costello often sang about more than just girls. Still, it's hard to begrudge a band their niche when they do it so well.
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Feb 9, 2011Now, they're just going through the motions.
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Feb 9, 2011Girls are a band who release their intoxicating mist over time, making this mini-album a bit unsatisfying in quantity rather than quality.
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Feb 9, 2011Mostly it is simply an impressively touching and intensely human affair--right now, it seems, nobody does melancholy quite like Girls.
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Feb 9, 2011Girls continue to bypass fads by making timeless music about the universal themes of love, heartache and drugs.
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Feb 9, 2011Broken Deams Club may be littered with broken hearts, but this Girls' EP is much more likely to steal yours than to shatter it.
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Feb 9, 2011If Broken Dreams Club is indeed an honest glimpse of what's ahead, it sounds as though Girls have much more to give.
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Feb 9, 2011What Girls prove more convincingly than ever on Broken Dreams Club is that sometimes a little stylistic schizophrenia can actually go a long way in shaping a singular artistic vision.
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Feb 9, 2011Everything is more complex, more daring, and simply more produced than anything else they've done. In that sense, it's the best kind of EP, existing because of a discernable creative spark, not as a clearinghouse for also-ran songs or a victory lap following a knockout year.
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Feb 9, 2011As the second album looms, it's exciting to hear them sound so bold and articulate.
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Feb 9, 2011Singer Christopher Owens remains unchanged: Choked on teen melodrama and blessed with a documentarian's keen eye, he's the rare indie rocker with a tender hooligan's heart.
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