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Jan 28, 2014Songs like "Unzip Your Harrington" and "Luv, Hold Me Down" aren't deep, but the charging-guitar shimmer and fun, facile choruses are pretty undeniable.
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Jan 27, 2014The music is a little too polished-sounding to have ever seen actual garages, and there doesn't seem to be much of the charm of, say, contemporaries Palma Violets, pervading any of the record's twelve tracks. But it's fun, and fun is sometimes just about enough.
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Jan 24, 2014Their brusque punk-pop style and his louche intonation suggest a tidier version of the Libertines.
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Jan 24, 2014Drowners can’t inspire too much ill will or really any kind of strong reaction and that’s fair enough: it doesn’t deal in hot, dirty sex or catastrophic breakups, mostly drunken hookups and easy letdowns.
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Jan 28, 2014The whole affair is ultimately an exercise in late-'90s indie rock ephemera, and like countless other acts before them, Drowners seem poised to fade away before they burn out.
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Jan 30, 2014Drowners prove themselves competent in making a tight indie rock album full of enjoyable melodies, but their strict adherence to formula and professionalism is undermining and can be dull.
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Jan 29, 2014Beneath its peacock plumage, preening, posturing and ‘performance’ there lies too little imagination.
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Jan 24, 2014As the album runs on, it's apparent Drowners' presiding influence is actually the Smiths, but in common with so many groups inspired by that most individual band, they lack what made the Smiths special.
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