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- Summary: This is the second full-length studio release for the Scottish indie pop band led by the brother-and-sister duo of David and Katie Pope.
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- Record Label: Fika Recordings
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Dec 7, 2017You Might Be Smiling Now... is lyrically smart, funny, and terrifyingly relatable.
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Dec 7, 2017They’ve dredged up their youthful feelings and animated them in both honest and affectionate tones, and it makes You Might Be Smiling Now… a joyous rummage through swathes of bleary nostalgia.
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Dec 7, 2017It’s a refined downer, enriched by self-lacerating wit (I Only Smoke When I Drink), indie-boy piss-takes (Sleeperbloke), story-song skills (unwanted-pregnancy tale Johnny (Have You Come Lately)) and briefly off-guard touches of synth-pop wistfulness (Big Blue Moon).
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UncutDec 7, 2017They're feeling the chill of middle age, when a night on the sofa with an M&S ready-meal holds more appeal than feeling like an auntie at the church-hall disco ("I Only Smoke When I Drink," "No Longer Young Enough"), and the wisecracks are harder to pull off. [Jan 2018, p.23]
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