This Gift - Sons and Daughters
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 9 Ratings

  • Summary: The third album for the Scottish band was produced by Bernard Butler.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 22
  2. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Look beneath the surface sheen, then, and you'll see gratefully receive This Gift as the best, most complete, Sons And Daughters long-player to date.
  2. This band is no one-off, and this is their best work yet. [Winter 2008, p.84]
  3. The viscous, darkly choppy, sexily fulsome and ferociously hard-driving blend of post-punk and country noir that distinguished their long-playing debut, "The Repulsion Box" is still evident, but it's matched with a bracing new breadth, dynamic diversity and myriad light/shade variations.
  4. 60
    Still square, then, but they're loosening up. [Feb 2008, p.93]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. DwamG.
    10
    Why are this band not yet global? Music to be frightened by.
  2. JoshK.
    9
    Album brings what is so great about Sons and Daughters - a strong, relentless beat with screeching guitars and charged vocals. Album is short but with their style, Sons and Daughters just just long enough. Expand
  3. GuillaumePop
    7
    Good Inspiration from the late 60's, 70's (Shocking Blue, Iggy...) but i'm not sure of its efficiency. Anyway, i love this band!

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