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- Summary: This debut full-length for the UK five-piece recalls 1980s synth-pop.
- Record Label: Independiente
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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This is an album that seethes with anger, ambition and malicious intent, and it's all the better for it.
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The influences are obvious, but where WRM succeed is in breathing new life into a tired template, adding attitude and intent on top of an effortlessly stylish base.
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[Producer Paul] Epworth's accomplishment is obvious throughout the record. Having remixed some of today's indie-elite, infusing garage rock riffs with electro elements, he knows the importance of dance-floor accessibility and brings out all the shadows and contrasts that make Kick the accomplishment it is.
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There's simply not enough killer songs here to snare you in the same way that, say, The Rakes did on their debut.
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White Rose Movement's "electro-clash" 80s sound basically candy-coats Nine Inch Nails industrial and metrosexualizes the lyrics, making Kick pretty redundant.
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Though sometimes over-melodramatic WRM do have an edge that the likes of the Bravery lack.
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Even The Bravery, easily the most similar band in approach to White Rose Movement and rightly derided for their style over substance rehashes of the past, at least had a couple of memorably fine songs. The White Rose Movement, on the other hand, have the style, but little substance to back it up.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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ShannonLDec 7, 2006I LOVE White Rose Movement Pressure point on 10th!!!!!
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MusicMavenMay 23, 2006
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