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MojoMay 20, 2015Pulsing with youthful rebellion, PV sound wildly bacchanalian. [Jun 2015, p.96]
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Apr 30, 2015Danger in the Club’s flaws and charms alike are summed up in the way Matador rollercoasts from sprawling mess to tuneful brilliance as the band throw everything in their locker at a heroic charge towards death or glory.
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Apr 30, 2015They’ve made one that sounds like it was recorded without a care in the world.
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May 4, 2015Despite its many head-bobbing moments, Danger in the Club feels more like two EPs--one that builds on 180's exuberance and one that explores new territory--than a consistent album.
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Jun 16, 2015These guys' re-enactment of the soccer-yob side of Seventies punk and pub rock is plenty idealistic.
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May 26, 2015Matador is a multi-part opus of gothic indie via The Stranglers in smacked-out mode, and Walking Home’s classic early 60s feel is enhanced by a splendid end-of-the-pier Hammond organ swell, before falling into wimoweh silliness.
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May 14, 2015The choruses aren't quite as contagiously catchy, and they occasionally try too hard to be clever with their songwriting.
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May 5, 2015Danger In The Club exudes an appealing spontaneity but frustratingly the songwriting still seems a bit haphazard, with the lyrics in particular remaining underwhelming.
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May 4, 2015This second album shows that there is more to their schtick than barely tamed chaos.
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Q MagazineApr 30, 2015It's not quite the classic they desperately want it to be, but Danger In The Club exudes a ragged rock'n'roll spirit which simply can't be manufactured. [Jun 2015, p.109]
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Apr 30, 2015This is a professional album, but the Violets are known as professional rabble-rousers, not professional studio rats.
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Jun 4, 2015Essentially, Palma Violets are revealed as a bit of a one-trick pony on Danger In the Club, with the novelty of their jangly pub-rock fading as quickly as the taste of the violet-flavored candy that they're named after.
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Jun 10, 2015Unfortunately, however, the band too often drops the tuneful troubadour for the drunken singalong.
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May 5, 2015As it stands, the album is a half-baked effort that resembles a collection of demos rather than a high-stakes sophomore album.
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May 13, 2015A charitable perspective might see the band's embrace of pub rock as a conscious rejection of political correctness in the form of so-called good taste; the reality is that it seems like a last-ditch attempt to aestheticize a sublime lack of inspiration.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 12
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Mixed: 3 out of 12
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Negative: 2 out of 12
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