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Studio majesty be darned, this could prove a modern classic regardless.
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The canniness of Album's production choices and the scuzzy depression of the lyrics and the gut-level songwriting instincts, along with everything else about the record, add up to something elusive and fascinating--maybe even heartbreaking.
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Album is one of the year’s most bracing pop releases, and one of the best, a devastatingly fresh reframing of the pop songbook.
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Girls are genuine drop-outs, bona-fide freaks who’ve made a record far removed from the predictable cycles of the music industry. Now that’s a real story.
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Created by two genuine outsiders and made with a refreshing lack of irony, Album is a welcome addition to the very best albums of 2009.
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Girls are poised to take their rightful place as one of the blog-crossover bands of 2009.
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It’s better to approach Album not as what its title offers, but a collection of singles. These are the new rock ’n’ roll 45s, variations of the same sad pop song shone through the prism of a guy who’s survived his own unique heartache.
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Despite having ties to shitgaze, this isn’t a record obsessed with that aesthetic, and this works to its advantage, since these songs clearly aspire to be bigger than that and have very real potential to be.
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Girls' 2009 album (simply titled Album) actually proved itself worthy of the hype upon its release.
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Its their frivolous experimentalism and willingness to toy with all aspects of the past that make Girls such an invitingly warm and honest proposition
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What makes Album so good, however, won’t be a consensus opinion on whether or not it’s culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. It’ll be the personal associations brought to it by each person encountering Girls for the first time.
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Album lurches bizarrely from the heart-rending to the goofy to the simply spaced-out, but what it lacks in polish it makes up for with buckets of charm.
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Even if Album doesn’t turn out to be all it’s been made out to be by the reams of hype already bestowed upon it, it’s certainly working at the moment.
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While not as fleshed out as some other remarkable debuts, Album is a fully realized personal vision.
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MojoRealised with friend Chet JR White in San Francisco on reel-to-reel tapes, the songs grab from Phil Spector, Beatles, Beach Boys, JAMC and Spiritualized, and are all the more enticing for it. [Jan 2010, p. 103]
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On Girls' debut, Christopher Owens' made peace with his past and crafted ace tunes to go with his tales of redemption.
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Girls are, at their most basic, a solid band of rock ‘n’ roll reappropriators.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 51 out of 64
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Mixed: 7 out of 64
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Negative: 6 out of 64
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ChristianP.Sep 26, 2009Embarrassingly overrated. one great song, and even that is about twice as long as it needs to be. What a bore.
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Feb 25, 2018This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Mar 24, 2017