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American Smile
Well the city sucked up your light... You're growing your American smile. You're searching for your voice, but you barely make a sound. Cough at the... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Alternative Press
    Jun 22, 2015
    80
    Cemetery Highrise Slum provides 41 minutes of unsettled bliss. [Jul 2015, p.97]
  2. Jun 22, 2015
    80
    Cemetery Highrise Slum is a maze; disorienting and satisfying in equal measure.
  3. Jul 2, 2015
    70
    In spite of its sequencing, every song on Cemetery Highrise Slum is individually good.
  4. Jun 22, 2015
    67
    While Miller and co. occasionally go too big in their goth-y appropriation of ’90s grunge and alt tropes, the album features a fair share of subtle emotional moments to combat them.
  5. 60
    As intimate as he gets, there's too strong a withdrawn feeling and one which severely takes away from an otherwise decent effort.
  6. Kerrang!
    Jun 22, 2015
    60
    They might nod to the past, but Creepoid's present is plenty bright. [20 Jun 2015, p.52]
  7. Jul 9, 2015
    50
    Whereas that band [Title Fight] used shoegaze and sludge as references and jumping-off points, Creepoid treat it like the whole point, and the album grows wearying long before it's over.

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  1. Jun 25, 2015
    10
    Best album in years to be wholly fresh while brilliantly evoking the jagged noise rock of Sonic Youth, the shimmering gauziness of the CocteauBest album in years to be wholly fresh while brilliantly evoking the jagged noise rock of Sonic Youth, the shimmering gauziness of the Cocteau Twins-era 4AD and the snarl of Seattle's grunge heyday. Transporting, hypnotic and extremely impressive. "Shaking", "Seams" and "Worthless and Pure" will rip your heart in two in the best possible way while "American Smile", "Tell the Man", "Eating Dirt" and "Devil in the Subtext" will get a festival crowd dancing (moshing?). This band deserves to be huge, and soon. Expand