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- Summary: The first single heard from the Welsh quartet since its 2009 album, Travels With Myself and Another, features the addition of second guitarist, Jimmy Watkins.
- Record Label: Inertia (IE)
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Nov 29, 2011Polymers Are Forever lurches, strives and sneers with all the subtlety of a bulldozer through the houses of parliament.
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Kerrang!Nov 29, 2011An EP that's more than a stopgap, Polymers ... refines the ex-McClusky men's sound without making it boring. [Nov. 19, 2011 p.52]
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Nov 29, 2011While the EP is not a complete overhaul of the band's sound – Falkous' semi-comprehensible mini-stories are alternately spoken and yelled, with frequent backing vocals; the bouncy New Adventures could have slotted comfortably onto either of their first two albums – there's an evident effort by FOTL here to avoid simply returning to what they know.
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Nov 29, 2011Polymers Are Forever makes the noblest of gestures-confusing the hell out of people who love their culture served to them on a stick while getting their fans psyched for a proper full-length early next year.
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Nov 30, 2011Taken from the album sessions, the organ-bolstered "Polymers Are Forever" combines classic FOTL with a worrying tendency for grandiosity which was emerging on Travels...; a stylistic development which, along with an increasing funk elasticity, is a far cry from Falkous's efficiently cutting Mclusky.
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Nov 30, 2011All-in-all a promising preamble to the real deal.
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Nov 29, 2011Polymers isn't a total overhaul from the taut and punishing Travels, but it does dial back tempos and lean far more heavily on blaring arcade synthesizers.
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