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Oct 19, 2015Lyrically fascinating, charmingly vulnerable and compulsively danceable--this is how to do a debut.
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Oct 19, 2015It might sound like Real Lies are living in the past, but Real Life is fiercely in the present.
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Oct 23, 2015As debuts go, this is fairly solid stuff, but it’s hard not to feel that Real Life should be so much more than the sum of its parts.
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Q MagazineOct 27, 2015There's talent here and with a slight upping of the serotonin levels next time round, Real Lies could yet be onto something. [Dec 2015, p.112]
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Oct 19, 2015Real Life is a compendium of 90s references, an avowed musical homage. This approach can sometimes feel a bit cold and diffident, and the monotone vocals also undercut the mood. But for all the talk of raves, drugs and A-road pubs, the recurrent theme is love, and monogamous love at that.
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Oct 19, 2015Real Lies are too young to remember the late 80s, but the north London trio’s frisky debut album is steeped in the spirit of the Balearic years when indie kids discovered ecstasy and acid house.
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Oct 19, 2015Real Lies’ debut effort instead puts forward a group who’ve clearly agonised over every detail of their early ‘90s aesthetic, and forgotten about the songs in the process.