- Record Label: Fat Cat
- Release Date: Oct 4, 2011
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Oct 10, 2011In the Pit of the Stomach is truly a feel-better record--in whatever way that resonates with you.
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Oct 3, 2011Their darkest and most complex work yet, In the Pit of the Stomach unleashes We Were Promised Jetpacks' full fury with impressive results.
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Alternative PressOct 4, 2011In the Pit of the Stomach is a fine achievement, but one that feels counter to the usual trajectory of your average rock group. [Nov 2011, p.98]
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Oct 4, 2011It sounds so much more raw and harsh, more real and vulnerable.
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Oct 10, 2011The be all and end all for In The Pit Of The Stomach is that, despite a few new experiments, it's like all their material: good music that you don't have to think about.
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Oct 3, 2011It's hard-edged, it's proficient and most certainly smarter than the average band.
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Oct 4, 2011A step forwards, if not a giant leap.
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Oct 12, 2011The result is a sophomore effort that deserves to be played loudly--and often.
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MagnetNov 11, 2011WWPJ returns to the moody and energetic sound of its debut with In The Pit of the Stomache, a 10-song set that bristles with raw post-punk power while pulsing with pop subtlety. [#81, p. 59]
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Oct 3, 2011This time around, however, they've paced themselves and delivered an album packed with punchy, literate guitar music.
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Oct 4, 2011We Were Promised Jetpacks may have found their style for now, but this album still hints that nothing's settled yet.
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Nov 14, 2011For a record that doesn't at all attempt to reinvent the two-guitars-bass-drums toolkit of punk-inflected modern indie rock, it's fundamental whole ends up being greater than its parts.
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Oct 3, 2011This is a superb record and WWPJ are one more example of just how spoilt we are by British rock music at the moment.
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Nov 8, 2011Clear, plaintive vocals propelled by ascending-staccato guitars and hellbent dance-worthy rhythms, as if the Texas band Explosions in the Sky had shown up with New Order's singer and backfield.
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Oct 3, 2011We Were Promised Jetpacks' second album tightens the craggy fuzz of their first, revealing twisty post-punk songs with chewy pop centers.
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Oct 4, 2011["Boy In The Backseat" and "Human Error"] plus the resounding "Pear Tree" end the album with impressive bluster, and stirring reminders about the power of the individual: to screw up, to fight on, to howl into the night.
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UncutOct 18, 2011It's fiercer and denser than their 2009 debut. [Nov 2011, p.107]
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Under The RadarNov 3, 2011[The band embraces] their isolation and neuroses and sublimate them into one hell of a sonic thrill on this fine album. [Oct 2011, p.103]
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