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Jun 10, 2013It’s a tightrope across a canyon down which many a pie-eyed baggy daredevil has fallen. Jagwar Ma make it look effortless.
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Aug 12, 2013Howlin is good enough to make you forget most of the bands they were influenced by too, as it both embraces and somehow transcends the '90s in a flash of sound and vision.
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MojoJul 10, 2013In short, it's the kind of pop music that works in any era. [Aug 2013, p.89]
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Q MagazineJun 17, 2013The naysayer might dismiss it as an elaborate pastiche, but this would be to miss the point of an often intoxicating LP that's more than the sum of its parts. [Jul 2013, p.108]
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Jun 10, 2013It’s designed for the outdoors, for huge crowds and for losing your mind to. There are few artists that have perfected the kind of engrossing and engaging dance delights that Jono and Gabriel are demonstrating here.
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Jun 10, 2013Howlin' works impeccably as a whole. Equally uplifting and calming, it's the dancefloor via the beach.
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Jun 10, 2013The accomplished sonic collages of Howlin' finely balance Jagwar Ma's influences and in doing so transcends into something singularly thrilling and cohesive.
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Jun 10, 2013Howlin is an intoxicating first showing from a band with bags of potential and, although it loses its way somewhat towards the end, it is brimming with the confidence of a vastly more experienced band.
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Aug 14, 2013Drenched in echoed vocals and layered synth lines, Howlin maintains an incredibly optimistic, carefree tone.
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Jun 21, 2013The music is a heady swirl of baggy beats and unabashed Beach Boys melodies, while the lyrics are wholly uninterested in anything intellectual.
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Aug 26, 2013Mindlessly hummable and pure of vision, Howlin’ sounds just as good coming from your headphones as it does from Marshall stacks.
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Nov 1, 2013The back half of Howlin’ falls off a bit, which is kind of inevitable with an album that starts as strongly as this one does.
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Aug 1, 2013The hits are so strong that you won’t mind trudging through a few missteps along the way.
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UncutJul 31, 2013Songs like "That Loneliness" can make Jagwar Ma sound a little clean-living, while the ingenuous "Let Her Go" simply bowls you over with sun-bleached pop-psych. [Sep 2013, p.90]
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Jun 12, 2013Ignoring the pair of low-key, forgettable tracks that close the album, Howlin is a cracking summer album.... but whether the album has a shelf life beyond that remains to be seen.
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Jun 10, 2013Despite its pleasures, Howlin struggles to surpass the faint feeling of pastiche that runs through "Uncertainty" and the frankly ridiculous pop flutter "Let Her Go."
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Jun 10, 2013These grooves are floppy-limbed, loosely propelled by basslines that sound like ones Ian Brown left behind under a pub table.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 36
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Mixed: 4 out of 36
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Negative: 0 out of 36
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