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Mar 14, 2011The simple fact is that Daydreams & Nightmares isn't just a joyous reinvention, or coming of age for Those Dancing Days, or even one the best albums of the year--which it certainly is--but, like any good dream, it comes when you least expect it, born out of your purest desires, and haunts you for those dancing days to come.
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Q MagazineApr 6, 2011Their sound brilliantly pays homage equally to the sparkling melodies of C86 and the lunk-headed bounce of punk rock. [Apr 2011, p.110]
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Mar 24, 2011With great pop hooks a-plenty, Daydreams And Nightmares amply demonstrates that growing up doesn't always have to be boring.
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Mar 14, 2011On the first few listens, the album is less immediate than the debut, but patience reveals it to be richer, more eclectic and far more satisfying.
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Mar 14, 2011By letting their heads float off into the clouds and planting their brogues firmly on the ground, Those Dancing Days have created an album of fizzing indie-pop to charm both the starry-eyed teen and the world-weary indie connoisseur.
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MojoApr 6, 2011Though there are also moments when TDD's seemingly random amalgam of influences and styles doesn't quite work, Fuckarias rocks like a bastard and frontwoman Linnea Jonsson has all the poise and tone required of a top-notch pop singer. [Apr 2011, p.97]
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UncutMar 29, 2011If TDD's Cure obsession at times gets the better of them, their buoyancy and drive will still fill floors. [Apr 2011, p.95]
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Mar 14, 2011Fuckarias is glorious, a bubblegum-punk screech driven by hyperventilating drums, sparking bristling guitars off Linnea Jonsson's incandescent vocal. But how slick and anodyne the rest of the album sounds beside it.
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Mar 14, 2011Daydreams & Nightmares may be pleasant enough for an afternoon diversion, but it's essentially nondescript, generic indie-pop, of which no amount of charisma from Jonsson can possibly mask.