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  • Summary: The fifth full-length release for British psychedelic punk duo of Holly Ross and David Blackwell was produced by Dave Fridmann.
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  1. Positive: 9 out of 12
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  1. Apr 3, 2018
    90
    In producer David Fridman, whose psychedelic instincts have added glow to everything from Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev to Creaming Jesus, MGMT and Sleater Kinney, Lovely Eggs have found a collaborator who understands that warmth, weirdness and wit can be melted into walls of queasy noise to quite gorgeous effect. Between them they’ve made something genuinely glorious. There’s nothing funny about that.
  2. 80
    Producer Dave Fridmann has managed to effect the same kind of equilibrial magic he wielded with The Flaming Lips, bringing power and clarity to the Eggs’ churning psych-punk turmoil of guitars and synths, and balancing it with the plaintive anger of Holly Ross’s vocals.
  3. Feb 23, 2018
    80
    This is Eggland is a relentless, heartfelt statement of intent. You wouldn’t bet against them unearthing glory from the fringe for decades to come.
  4. 70
    “I Shouldn’t Have Said That”, the pummeling psych diptych “Return of Witchcraft” and “Witchcraft”, and every other corner of Eggland find them in their sweet spot: blunt pop purity bolstered by Big Muff pedals and a sense of not-quite-reckless abandon.
  5. Mar 1, 2018
    70
    It’s as good an introduction as you’ll get to the group and its charmingly skewed perspective on the world.
  6. Uncut
    Feb 21, 2018
    70
    With Mercury Rev/Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann poking psychedelic liquorice in the fluffy sherbet of their sound, Ross and drummer David Blackwell are more like an ice-cream van sinking in marshmallow, Motorhead on the dodgems or PJ Harvey fronting the Glitterband. [Mar 2018, p.28]
  7. Q Magazine
    Feb 21, 2018
    60
    Holly Ross and David Blackwell's heaviest record in years. [Apr 2018, p.111]

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