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Aug 29, 2014Building upon the anthemic synth pop of their previous 2013 album, Anna, the Manchester outfit delve even deeper into a layered post-punk sound that finds them adding more guitars and even strings on some cuts.
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UncutSep 2, 2014Although the The Courteeners are newly mature, they're oddly not yet their own men. [Oct 2014, p.69]
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Q MagazineAug 29, 2014Hardly groundbreaking, but there's heft, heart and humour here in spades. [Oct 2014, p.107]
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Aug 29, 2014While they’ve never been terribly fashionable, they’ve always used that to their advantage, projecting a underdog siege mentality whilst simultaneously selling out arenas. Concrete Love, however, is nothing to beat their own drum about.
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Aug 29, 2014This particular realm of music expands, and you need to expand with it, or remain interesting enough to survive as you are; Courteeners have unfortunately done neither.