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Emergency isn't quite the great leap that was expected but does at least carry a few optimistic signs for the future.
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MojoThose Libertines comparisons are a distant memory on Emergency, an album that ditches any tentativeness felt on last year's "Wait For Me," the band and producer Stephen Street going for Yorkshire-patented, Kaiser Chief-sized choruses, and Arctic Monkeys' kitchen-sink philosophising in the verses. [June 2008, p.102]
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Individual tracks can feel forced rather than organically nurtured. It all means that by the time they hit ‘Making Up Numbers’ and ‘Everybody Wants Me’, there are no longer enough new tricks in their bag to hold our attention, and ‘Emergency’ bleeds away without a climax.
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UncutThe Pigeon Detectives' second in a year smacks of too much haste and too little thought. [June 2008, p.98]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 16
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Mixed: 3 out of 16
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Negative: 2 out of 16
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MikeW.Jul 14, 2008