- Record Label: Dance to the Radio
- Release Date: Apr 4, 2011
Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Dec 6, 2011Described as a rallying call to guitar bands by Bowman, Up, Guards and at 'Em isn't distinctive or original enough to inspire anyone to swap their synths for a six-string, and instead, sounds more like a final nail in the British indie coffin than the shot in the arm it needed.
-
Apr 20, 2011The band struggles to dredge up any sort of sparkle, no matter how finely-forged the hook.
-
Apr 20, 2011Up, Guards And At Em is powerfully akin to going back to a club you haven't been to in years, only to find the same soundtrack playing. And there's few people out there who wouldn't find that boring.
-
MojoMay 17, 2011Where the remainder deviates, though, is in its lyricism, a good thing, because the beer-boys-in-the-band stance is replaced by only-to-be-encouraged attempts at social comment and a more enlightened approach to gender politics. [May 2011, p.110]
-
Apr 20, 2011There are one or two new ventures into the unknown, but by and large, The Pigeon Detectives haven't made enough progression from Emergency.
-
Apr 20, 2011Those three seconds of stuttering electronica simply take their reputation for leftfield experimentalism too far. Thankfully, such wilful pretension buggers off, and the rest is a more quality-controlled set.
-
Q MagazineMay 17, 2011They've taken their time, but this fine record suggests it may not be too late. [May 2011, p.124]
-
UncutApr 22, 2011Their third full-length radiates the stale resignation of a band whose moment has passed. [May 20111, p.93]