Free All the Monsters - The Bats
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  • Record Label: Flying Nun
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, New Zealand Rock
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Dusted Magazine
    Feb 14, 2012
    80
    These songs still jangle, still twitch, still pulse, but there's an undertone of serenity and philosophical acceptance that makes them resonate, too.
  2. Mojo
    Jun 27, 2012
    80
    Like a very fine wine, after 25 years The Bats are only really just coming on song. [Jan 2012, p.96]
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  3. Uncut
    Feb 13, 2012
    80
    If you fell for Real Estate and their peers, here's the root. [Mar 2012, p.81]
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  4. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Feb 14, 2012
    60
    As with other Bats albums, Free All the Monsters' charming modesty is a hair's breadth away from monotonous.

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