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Mar 4, 2013There’s a sense of the theatrical blended in subtly among the very genuine declarations of self that pepper the rest of the album.
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Feb 21, 2013Fans of melodic rock music with a tinge of punk attitude will find plenty to sing along to here.
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Q MagazineFeb 21, 2013[Pure Love] spiritedly serves up a full album's worth of way-above-par songs, which are radio friendly. [Mar 2013, p.109]
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Feb 21, 2013When it works, it runs like a stallion, but for fans whose allegiances lie with Carter and Carroll's previous incarnations, the engaging but jarring Anthems will probably prove awfully hard to digest.
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 6, 2013Kudos to Pure Love for taking a ludicrous concept of comedy commercialism and successfully straightening its face. [Feb 2013, p.95]
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Feb 21, 2013For a debut album it’s accomplished stuff, though like the Manics before them Anthems is not without its stodgier moments.
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Feb 21, 2013Anthems is a confident, solid and ultimately hugely likable debut; Carter and Carroll have succeeded in producing something that on occasion genuinely lives up to its ambitious title.
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Mar 29, 2013They deserve credit for writing and performing confidently with such specificity, but they also deserve some derision for failing to even attempt straying from the pack. Anthems is a good entry into a genre that still offers better.
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MojoFeb 21, 2013Overall Anthems is a gutsy carer swerve from Carter who proves himself capable of crooning with swagger. [Mar 2013, p.94]
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Feb 21, 2013The album itself consists of 11 tracks of unimaginative pub rock that, at best, rips off The Darkness, and at worst comes across like a bunch of teenagers in their first band.