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Feb 10, 2014Stuffed with guitar histrionics, Cheatahs do fall prey to hero-worship, but they nevertheless deliver an album worthy of its influences.
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Under The RadarFeb 21, 2014As much as they try to shy away from the shoegaze label, Cheatahs have crafted an album which, if not for coming out tow decades after the fact, could stand with some of the genre's greats. [Feb/Mar 2014, p.70]
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Feb 11, 2014As much as it could be a short primer on a genre, the album works even better as one band’s first statement of purpose.
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American SongwriterFeb 20, 2014Layers of distortion and droning feedback pour from the speakers, almost fighting the melodies for dominance (and losing), with everything coming together in an organic, unforced manner. [Mar 2014, p.90]
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MojoFeb 11, 2014An uber-melodious debut.[Mar 2014, p.96]
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Feb 11, 2014It’s as good as anyone had hoped.
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Feb 10, 2014If you were someone who felt stood-up by Yuck’s follow-up to their self-titled debut, Cheatahs will follow through on the promise that great rainy Saturday afternoon shoegaze isn’t all gazing into a rearview mirror.
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Feb 10, 2014here are patches of sonic soup--‘Kenworth’ suffers from a particularly acute case of moaning flange--but overall, Cheatahs is a triumph of content over style: a gleaming pop wrecking ball taken to the sonic cathedral.
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Feb 10, 2014Vast, clamorous, and curiously beautiful, Cheatahs recalls a time and place that isn't necessarily 2014, but does so with such skill and élan you'd be a fool not to meander through time and space with these sounds.
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Feb 6, 2014The debut album from London’s Cheatahs is an exercise in introspective, eclectic art-rock.
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Feb 6, 2014Cheatahs might not have done anything especially new on their debut record, but they’ve delivered it in such incendiary fashion that it’s impossible to ignore.
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Feb 11, 2014Sure, Cheatahs unabashedly emulate their influences--and you’ll hear plenty about that in the coming months--but there’s no doubt they’re doing things their way.
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MagnetFeb 21, 2014There's more to Cheatahs than throwback sonics, though it takes a few listens to really catch the complex melodies and structures in the album's strongest cuts. [No. 106, p.53]
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Feb 10, 2014While the band leads us down roads we have assuredly traveled before, that doesn’t make the sights and the sounds any less interesting or intoxicating this time around.
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Feb 19, 2014Cheatahs doesn’t make any great claims of originality, and it certainly doesn’t break any new ground. It just succeeds because it is what it is.
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Feb 12, 2014At times it seems to be too much under the influence of My Bloody Valentine--even the cover art evokes them--and their contemporaries, yet it does what it does very well and it would be harsh to overlook the fact that this is a strong debut in its own right.
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UncutFeb 6, 2014Cheatahs brings to mind the era's second-tier acts, such as Swervedriver and Drop Nineteens--faint praise, but praise all the same. [Mar 2014, p.73]
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Feb 6, 2014There’s an effortlessness to their interpretation that stops them from sounding too calculated, though--you get the sense that these are four blokes whose enthusiasm for the grungey alt-rock bands of 20 or so years ago is so great that they can’t stop the influence bleeding into their own music.
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Feb 18, 2014Cheatahs might not be a very ambitious record, but it is kinda ballsy.
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Mar 31, 2014Cheatahs bring enough winners to the table to make their debut a worthwhile listen and promise a bright future.
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Q MagazineFeb 14, 2014The overall effect is warmly intoxicating and that the album comes so close to matching up to the records it's in thrall to means you can forgive its obvious debt to others. [Mar 2014, p.110]
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Feb 7, 2014It's never boring, the dynamism of the tracks means they all have a sense of motion. It's just, after a while, there doesn't seem to be a destination in mind.
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