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  • Summary: The second full-length release for the British pop-punk band was produced by MJ from Hookworms.
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  1. Jul 8, 2016
    90
    Martha are everything you want a great pop band to be: students of their trade, people with something to say and the vocabulary to do it, a distinctively joyous sound and a grand sense of humour.
  2. Jul 7, 2016
    90
    The emotional universality of the debut has certainly carried through to Blisters in the Pit of My Heart.
  3. Jun 30, 2016
    83
    There’s only a certain level of cute that some listeners can tolerate in their guitar rock cocktail, but for those willing to embrace a style of music that’s immediately satisfying and goes out of its way to relate to the people who need it most, it’s hard to do better than four Brits who, by their own admission, “stumble over words from time to time.”
  4. Jun 27, 2016
    80
    Winningly, their wit is matched by a thrilling, fizzing set of noisy, melodic songs that ought to inspire utter devotion and soundtrack many, many summers of abandon and heartbreak.
  5. Jul 1, 2016
    80
    Relatability abounds on Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart, perhaps not least on retail romance tale ‘Precarious (The Supermarket Song)’ where “I’m like an unexpected item in your bagging area” emerges as a contender for lyric of the year.
  6. Jul 13, 2016
    73
    At times it may feel cheesy, or like “naive romantic shite” as they say at one point, but in the end, it’s honestly comforting.
  7. Jun 27, 2016
    60
    There's a definite sense of deja vu, and maybe there's less of the bite that made the Durham band's debut Courting Strong feel so vital... but when the band kick into heavier tracks like Goldman's Detective Agency, it's free-wheeling, cathartic goodness.

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