The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
by Psapp
  • Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: Jun 6, 2006
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  1. gman
    Jun 15, 2006
    8
    Songs with 'little noises poking out' (as Psapp perfectly describe their own sound). Ignore any of the lukewarm reviews above (they are no doubt written by critics who consider The Kaiser Chiefs to be the height of musical innovation). Psapp sound something like the Young Marble Giants fed through a modern filter of Herbert, Lali Puna and Matmos and are quite brilliant. The Songs with 'little noises poking out' (as Psapp perfectly describe their own sound). Ignore any of the lukewarm reviews above (they are no doubt written by critics who consider The Kaiser Chiefs to be the height of musical innovation). Psapp sound something like the Young Marble Giants fed through a modern filter of Herbert, Lali Puna and Matmos and are quite brilliant. The songs (and little noises) on The Only Thing I Ever Wanted are at least as good as those on their previous album and another little 'pop' gem (or what pop would sound like in a world where the CD buying public weren't complete morons).… Expand

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Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
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  1. Drowned In Sound
    80
    The Only Thing I Ever Wanted is a true album, a coherent trail of interlinked melody and domestic adventures.
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  2. Playlouder
    70
    Sophomore album 'The Only Thing I Ever Wanted' is the work of a band with a keening melodic sense, akin to the development apparent in the prime works of, say, Idlewild or the Delgados, and, impressively, it does this without losing any of the idiosyncratic DIY charms that characterised its makers in the first place.
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  3. Q Magazine
    70
    Weird and wonderful. [May 2006, p.129]
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