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Sep 14, 2015For the first time, she has managed to capture her inimitable stage presence on record. With this set of scrappy, rapturous barn jams, she has captured lightning in a bottle (or, more accurately, thunder in a digital file).
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Dec 22, 2015Initially, the noise is the allure, but subsequent spins reveal these songs are as tightly constructed as those Howard writes for Alabama Shakes and, in some respects, maybe even a little sturdier.
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UncutOct 27, 2015Thunderbitch does a far better job of capturing Howard as a performer than either of the Alabama Shakes albums have; here, her inimitable, flamboyant voice is given free rein, ably supported by her fellow Thunderbitches. [Dec 2015, p.68]
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Sep 14, 2015It’s old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll that is never studied or antiquarian; Thunderbitch still feels the zap.
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Sep 14, 2015Thunderbitch the album rolls with precisely as much uncompromising swagger as its name suggests.
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Sep 14, 2015The record is consciously straightforward and unapologetically so. And there ain’t nothing wrong with that.
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Oct 20, 2015Howard yowls about how she's a rock & roll wild child who just doesn't care, even as the surprising amount of craft the band puts into these songs suggests she cares quite a bit.... But it's the looser the better here.
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Oct 2, 2015The eponymous debut is pure punk.
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Sep 14, 2015The album is plenty of fun, even if its entirely unoriginal. Like a great house party, Thunderbitch is gone too quick, a little bit rowdy, and soundtracked by jams that facilitate a good time, even if they don’t demand much of your attention.