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Arrested adolescence has rarely sounded so inviting. [26 Oct 2007, p.67]
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Teenager can stand as the group's crowning glory to date.
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All in all, Teenager stands as both a distillation of the band's strengths and an impressive step forward, and perhaps more importantly, an irony-free, immensely relatable look at the heady emotional extremes of youth.
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Teenager is consistently rewarding, then; what it lacks though is bite.
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80The theme of lost innocence is ideal for the sad sweetness of Conor Deasy's voice, which has never sounded better than on 'This Year,' a rush of noise which restores the busked immediacy of their debut.
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So it appears that The Thrills are back on course, deftly employing their distinct sound and vision, a little older (though still in their 20s), a little wiser and surely finding resonance in one of Deasy's refrains: "This could be our year."
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The album's best moments-like the stuck-in-a-small-town-with-a-broken-heart tale 'Nothing Changes Around Here'--will undoubtedly please fans who've been waiting three years for another fix of the best American pop band ever to come out of Ireland.
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Teenager is simply more wonderful, bittersweet laze-pop of a hue at which The Thrills have become grand masters.
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Teenager is an important album for The Thrills. It represents a step forward for a band that was looking like it had lost its luster. [Fall 2007, p.83]
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70Unusually for a Teenager, this album has taken a long time to come.
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69Teenager is gloomy without feeling fatalistic; melodic without feeling facile. For the Thrills, a quick locale change has managed to yield impressive results.
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60The Thrills have matured into pretty crafty tunesmiths. [Nov 2007, p.125]
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60While at times fun and lovely, this release exemplifies the very treachery of maturing that it addresses with such earnestness.
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60The band is in fine form, and the compositions are solid, but they seem like they're covering the same ground, and the freshness of a debut is never sustained three albums on.
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The album gains little from the effects heaped upon it, but Teenager is able to escape being totally buried under them.
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50The results are hit-and-miss.
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40Musically, their songs are too brightly bland, so obviously designed for mass consumption and uplift that the tinny guitars and twinkling piano melodies end up sounding cheap.
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Teenager is as flat as the Mojave Desert, and, like a fusty pastel sweater bought as a birthday present, it's cosy yet bland.
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AfrofromAbove19798Not is the best album of 2007 of course not is the best album of them but is a nice album, the first 5 songs are the best in the album… so.