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Feb 28, 2014From the twin guitar salvos of Mark Goldsworthy and Liam Matthews through to Tom Kelly and Henry Ruddell's flawless rhythm section crowned by Mitchell's voice of reason, they're an unshakable and on this, their long-awaited first LP, an unstoppable force.
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Mar 4, 2014These are songs that almost certainly take on extra ferocity in a live setting. Eagulls captures that intensity well, heralding one of England’s most promising new voices.
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Jun 19, 2014Singer/lyricist George Mitchell sings clean and fairly melodically, but with convincing disaffection.
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Q MagazineMar 14, 2014Post-punk might not be new, but like their name, with a few tweaks and some bold personality Eagulls have defiantly made it their own. [Apr 2014, p.108]
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Mar 10, 2014With a perfect combination of loose noise and tight melody, Eagulls’ self-titled debut puts the group on the fast track to be taken seriously, even compared to peers on their third or fourth try.
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UncutMar 7, 2014While they're not doing anything particularly new, the mixture of bile and valedictory swagger here is exhilarating. [Apr 2014, p.73]
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Mar 7, 2014As a whole, Eagulls is a refreshing, unrestrained album, a cool drink of insta-nostalgia for the best of the late ’80s, early ’90s rejecters of the mold.
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Mar 4, 2014Eagulls' density and intensity sometimes border on exhausting, but the album is an undeniably bracing beginning.
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Mar 3, 2014It’s as nasty a little thing as it sounds, yet, for all the ugliness that spills out of Eagulls, they’re never anything less than vital; these are anthems for a doomed youth determined to kick against the pricks rather than mope forlornly and fruitlessly.
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Feb 28, 2014Amidst the sanded-corner tunes and taut, buffed percussion, the five-piece have a lot of valuable ruminations on being young and hopeless and helpless in modern Britain.
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Feb 27, 2014Theirs is a fierce and angry sound, with elements of grunge, hardcore, post-punk and shades of goth, too. But it's also packed with hooks.
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Feb 27, 2014I can't work out what the bloody hell he's on about half the time but there's some kind of of authenticity dripping from every verbal bark and echoey guitar jangle, every driving bassline and intelligent whack of the drums.
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Feb 26, 2014It may not be original, but in a time where bands prefer to gaze wistfully at their shoes or navels, Leeds’ Eagulls are like a necessary breath of fresh air.
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Feb 26, 2014A tour de force of Eagulls' brash and brazen-faced formula, this is a record that’ll be ringing in your ears for days after it’s finished.
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Mar 5, 2014Imperfect as it might be, the album’s relentlessness is also it’s chief allure. In reality, Eagulls sounds more innovative than it probably is due to the world in which it arrives.
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Mar 10, 2014Eagulls have synthesized their influences well, and have created an enjoyable rock record (they've been around since 2010, which may account for why so many of these songs sounds accomplished as they do); so while Eagulls is not exactly life-changing music, the songs stick with you, and sometimes that's enough.
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Mar 13, 2014As a debut album, Eagulls proves that this band has tremendous potential.
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MagnetMar 12, 2014It's hard to ignore that the arrangements feel like templates. [No. 107, p.55]
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Mar 7, 2014It’s a great release by one of the UK’s most promising bands, and lays down a foundation for them to build on being melodious and aggressive.
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Mar 4, 2014The Eags are at their best when they bump into a memorable melody.
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Alternative PressFeb 26, 2014What keeps these 10 songs honest is the audible influence of another genre: shoegaze. [Mar 2014, p.92]
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Under The RadarFeb 26, 2014It's the sound of a bunch of guys getting the same kicks in the studio as they have on one stage after another since their start. [Feb/Mar 2914, p.71]
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MojoMar 21, 2014A single-minded, yet ultimately baffling experience. [Apr 2014, p.95]
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Mar 3, 2014The band surely know their strengths and have developed their sound, but the individual songs suffer when stacked on top of each other.
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Mar 24, 2014The Eagulls’ album does a fantastic job of funneling the band’s energy. That’s the good part. But as for the subtleties--the way that players interact, the fit between chug and melody, the depth that emerges with occasional negative space--you won’t find any of that here.
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Mar 11, 2014Far from being as incisive as Albini or as sonically daring as Kevin Shields, Eagulls have created something akin to comfort food, an album to soothe the fears of guitar nuts afraid that feedback-driven six-string assaults were somehow in danger of going extinct.
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