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Mar 18, 2013Like some of his peers, Woolhouse can be a little too subtle for his own good, but on Life After Defo, he's crafted a promising debut with a distinctively cozy take on life's bittersweet moments.
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Mar 12, 2013This is electro-pop with palpable emotion possessing its fizzing keys, guided by a vocal performance that underplays the fraught feelings found on the lyric sheet.
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Mar 12, 2013With powerful juxtapositions of connection and disconnection, hope and despair, life and death, possession and loss throughout, Life After Defo is an absolute thesis on pop experimentalism.
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Mar 27, 2013Scattered with the odd moment that’ll leave you in no doubt that Woolhouse is far from the finished product, he nonetheless offers glimpses of a talent that is at times unrivalled.
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Mar 13, 2013Life After Defo is both complex and accessible, intricate and immediate.
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Mar 19, 2013Woolhouse mostly lives up to the dark nature of his moniker, but for brief moments he glimpses light at the end of the tunnel.
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Q MagazineMar 12, 2013Life after Defo occasionally feels like flicking through someone's heartbreak diaries. [Apr 2013, p.99]
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Mar 14, 2013This is a lovely, gentle record; with some of those tentative edges smoothed away, Woolhouse could be a keeper.
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Mar 20, 2013Life After Defo is a truly captivating debut, with a poignancy that lasts far beyond the first listen.
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UncutMar 12, 2013Deptford Goth's ghost R&B keens admiringly in the direction of Bon Iver and Active Child. [Apr 2013, p.69]