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Mar 28, 2011Although they've dropped two full-lengths since then, PB&J haven't recaptured that ubiquity. But Gimme Some, their sixth album, is crammed with winsome tunes.
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Mar 31, 2011Gimme Some reveals a band that is reinvigorated, one that has remembered what it was like to make music without forcing the issue.
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Mar 28, 2011Gimme Some, sixth album from Swedish indie pop types Peter, Bjorn And John, is absolutely superb; sunshine and a hundred beach parties stuffed into thirty minutes, sprightly and joyous, cool, confident and glossy.
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Mar 28, 2011The energy level is up; the production is clanky and raw; the guitars ring louder, and the drums hit harder. For the first time, Peter Bjorn and John actually sound like--dare we say--a rock band.
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UncutMay 13, 2011Gimme Some's relentless melodicism arrives with a harder edge than the dreamy naivete that powered "Young Folks," but the results frequently feel just as fine. [Jun 2011, p.93]
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Apr 7, 2011There's no whistling, but there are plenty of stick-in-your-head moments. At the end of the day, that's what we want from them.
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Mar 28, 2011The photo of the band in the CD booklet shows three guys in a tight circle playing heads-down intense, and it feels like this camaraderie and dedication has paid off in a record that may not save their career commercially, but will prove that they are still vital and exciting.
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Mar 25, 2011Gimme Some delivers more than a few pop songs, a legitimate pop album written with the subtlety of a band that has come to appreciate, instead of run from, their hit-making ability.
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Mar 30, 2011On fifth LP Gimme Some, the Swedish trio has stripped down their sound, and their brand of indie rock has never sounded fresher.
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Mar 29, 2011They seem to have stopped trying to subvert their pop nous and accept what they do best, and for the most part it works a treat.
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Mar 28, 2011Perhaps it's the introduction of an outside producer (Per Sunding) for the first time, but they're sounding like a band with something to prove.
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Mar 25, 2011If the least they do is keep revealing new shades of the familiar, it's worth sticking around and seeing this band through.
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Mar 29, 2011Gimme Some surfaces from more of a basic power trio sound without straying too far from indie-pop roots.
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Mar 29, 2011Gimme Some is retreat to light-hearted pop after the coolly received electro experiments of 2009's Living Thing. The style suits them, even when the substance is lacking.
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Mar 25, 2011These guys are capable musicians and studio heads, and mechanically speaking, these are fine pop songs-- well crafted, ably produced, everything in its right place-- but they don't particularly move you.
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Mar 30, 2011Two years later, the trio return with Gimme Some, a punk record that transmogrified itself into a pop-rock effort fueled by many drunken nights.
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Alternative PressMar 29, 2011Gimme Some is grounded in a guitar-based directness it seemed PB&J had left behind. [Apr 2011, p.118]
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Mar 29, 2011Peter Bjorn and John's sixth disc is pretty mannish, a foray into Seventies English punk rock, early U2 and R.E.M. anthemics, arena-drum bombast and a cowbell-happy jam their fan Kanye West could flow over.
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Mar 28, 2011This might be a more natural and relaxed PB&J having the time of their lives, but it certainly doesn't find the band at their most creative.
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Mar 28, 2011While admirably demonstrating that they're no one trick pony, the album is plagued with moments so awkward it makes most first dates seem preferable-promises of pop pleasure be damned.
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Mar 25, 2011On Gimme Some, Peter Bjorn and John abandon the experimental sound they'd been developing over the course of the last few years in favor of flavorless alt-rock that falls short of the bar set by Falling Out.
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Mar 25, 2011Even at its most jagged, however, Gimme Some comes across as power-pop by numbers, the effortlessness with which the Swedish trio spin cheerful melodies and ineffable hooks making almost every song sound uncomfortably derivative.
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