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- Summary: The second full-length release for Irish rock band Pillow Queens was written over three months and recorded by returning producer Tommy McLaughlin.
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- Record Label: Royal Mountain Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Apr 1, 2022Across the record it’s clear that Pillow Queens have truly hit their stride as a band. Leave The Light On strikes the balance between the excitement of an early career and the deliberate precision of seasoned musicians.
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Apr 1, 2022Leave the Light On sets its aim as high as possible and rarely misses—fun, vast in its soundscape, it effortlessly takes hold of you with its power. But even in that massive scope, it is surprisingly intimate and humanistic, making it just as thoughtful, if not more so, than Pillow Queens’ debut.
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Apr 1, 2022Awash with electric guitars equally as influenced by tradition as cathartic night drives, ‘Leave The Light On’ delves into the power of loneliness. Challenging the definition through both lyrics and sound, Pillow Queens deliberately play with light and heavy.
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Apr 5, 2022The tracks ebb and flow, never stopping in a static moment but chasing a thought, an ideal and holding out hope.
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Apr 6, 2022While the songs themselves are more uneven, Pillow Queens' sound is fully formed, with tracks including opener "Be by Your Side" hitting on all cylinders.
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Apr 6, 2022Leave the Light On often considers the toll of living up to expectations, in romantic, platonic, and societal terms. Unfortunately, you also sometimes get the sense of it with regards to following up a beloved album, with the band revealing a new inclination toward gravitas that smothers some of their fire.
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Apr 1, 2022Pillow Queens add a few more extended shredding sessions to the template, but they largely stick within the bounds of this classy, serious style. It’s not one that gives the group a particularly distinctive flavour, but it is at least able to contain all the feelings of confusion, fury, outsized desire and whatever else the listener wants to extrapolate from this evocative if slightly nebulous record.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Jul 4, 2022
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