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- Summary: The British quartet releases its follow-up to its 2010 Mercury Prize-nominated album Two Dancers, produced by Richard Formby.
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- Record Label: Domino
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Punk
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End Come Too Soon | |
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Break some bread, The night's been blessed, With a neverendingness, But none the less, End come too soon Sweet concubine, The [night's] divine, In a... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 28
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Mixed: 2 out of 28
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Negative: 0 out of 28
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May 9, 2011They are, right now, the most inspirational, intriguing, effortlessly enrapturing band at work on these shores. And Smother might well prove to be the album of 2011.
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May 9, 2011Wild Beasts continue to find finer ways of expressing themselves while still holding onto the primal passion they've always had, and Smother is some of their most accessible yet creative work.
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May 9, 2011The Cumbrian quartet haven't fumbled the ball with the follow-up. Smother, recorded in the shadow of Snowdonia, tinkles and twinkles like the classiest adult-alternative pop of the 1980s.
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May 9, 2011Smother isn't conventional chart material, but will make their burgeoning cult impossible to ignore.
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May 13, 2011The ultimate beauty of Smother, though, comes from its subtlety as Wild Beasts continue to transcend conventional pop music with yet another great addition to their catalog.
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Sep 12, 2011Smother, roiling in passion often disorienting in its envelopment, is difficult to penetrate, but there is ecstasy in the succumbing.
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May 16, 2011Overall, Smother seems to be missing purpose. I hear those careful ruminations on relationships, and I hear the pain that evidently went into this, but it leaves me cold.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 22
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Mixed: 1 out of 22
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Negative: 1 out of 22
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May 10, 2011
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