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- Summary: The debut full-length release for the Manchester dream-pop four-piece band was self-recorded.
- Record Label: !K7
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jan 16, 2014Waking Lines is a success.
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Jan 16, 2014Waking Lines is an ambitious premiere, but one that’s not had all it’s misshapen foibles ironed out. Patterns have, however, ensured that they’ll remain inside people’s heads for a considerable time to come.
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Jan 16, 2014What it lacks perhaps in originality, it certainly more than delivers in getting, keeping and rewarding the listener's attention.
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Jan 16, 2014Waking Lines may not always hit the mark, but for a debut effort it offers lashings of promise for Patterns’ future if they can either hone their songwriting skills or take a detour down the lengthy drone-pop street
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Jan 16, 2014The big, synapse-tangling rush of Induction and Broken Trains's ethereal electronica are clearly derivative, but the original source material feels far enough away to make this album almost a new chapter in shoegaze.
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Q MagazineJan 28, 2014They're better when operating at full-throttle, as on the muscular Blood and carefree Our Ego, but for music intended to elevate, the rest remains strangely earthbound. [Feb 2014, p.118]
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Jan 16, 2014Their debut album muses woozily on sleep, memory and psychoanalysis. For all that, they are no more mind-bending than scores of recent shoegaze revivalists.
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