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  • Summary: This is the second full-length release for Chicago-based indie rock band Slow Pulp.
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  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Oct 4, 2023
    85
    With indie rock firmly in its latest shoegaze renaissance, Slow Pulp helps lead the pack with seemingly effortless ease. It’s the sort of warm and instantly familiar album that you will surely find yourself returning to at an unexpected moment. After a few listens, you’ll fall in love.
  2. Sep 27, 2023
    84
    Yard reveals the band’s versatility—confirming that the band has extensive new sonic avenues to explore in depth moving forward. The album is already a delicious feast but, after this achievement, one can’t help but wonder what the band will try next.
  3. 80
    It’s those little moments that best prove that Slow Pulp themselves have found that same type of sweetness, and with it they’ve delivered their best project thus far.
  4. Oct 3, 2023
    70
    A solid return, there’s a lot to recommend here – for those familiar with Slow Pulp’s influences, or otherwise. Engaging songwriting with a real punch, we’re already looking forward to catching them live.
  5. Oct 19, 2023
    70
    Slow Pulp capture what shoegaze and dreampop do best: offering reassurance not that your decisions are right, but that questioning them is what life is about.
  6. Classic Rock Magazine
    Oct 17, 2023
    70
    There's way more Breeders-reminiscent 90s alt. meat on the bones. [Nov 2023, p.81]
  7. Oct 16, 2023
    60
    If Yard evinces any steps forward for Slow Pulp, they are baby steps. There is an argument to be made, though, for being consistently good rather than only intermittently great.

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