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May 28, 2015The overall sound is thin and tinny.
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Apr 14, 2015While their approach is a little aggressive at times, making it a little too much to take in at once, Glitterbug is full of tracks that prove there's no reason not to indulge in it.
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Apr 13, 2015Ultimately, it's this kind of life-is-short pop energy, imbued with Murphy's well-curated sense of time and place, that helps elevate the Wombats' Glitterbug from just a one-crazy-night soundtrack to an album that might stick with you for years to come.
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Apr 13, 2015The reality is that Glitterbug just doesn’t excite or leave any lasting impression.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2015They're onto something here. [May 2015, p.115]
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Alternative PressApr 10, 2015Any way you slice it, Glitterbug lives up to its explosive, playful name. [May 2015, p.102]
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Apr 10, 2015Glitterbug is pleasant enough and far from a chore to listen to, even if it feels too safe and inoffensive to warrant repeated listening.
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Apr 9, 2015It’s got “grimly competent” written all over it, but that doesn’t make Glitterbug awful--just desperately uninvolving if you’re not already one of the zealots.
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Apr 9, 2015There’s a very palatable poppy sheen on all of these tracks: Glitterbug is packed with anthemic hooks and synth pulses that sound like they were composed solely to lure Lexus.
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Apr 9, 2015Glitterbug is a tired album that lacks invention and makes the landfill indie tag even easier to attribute.
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Apr 9, 2015In all of this, it's not that any one song is outright horrific (okay, 'Pink Lemonade' is pretty unbearable), more that the entire experience is a chore.
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Apr 9, 2015Only ‘The English Summer’ and ‘Pink Lemonade’ bear much resemblance to the antsy, fidgety post-punk The Wombats made their name with, and both end up falling somewhat flat. In its place are the sleek, synth-laden likes of ‘Be Your Shadow’ and ‘Headspace’ --precision-engineered for mass appeal, but no less effective for it.
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Mixed: 4 out of 27
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