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Q MagazineFeb 14, 2014Drowners wear their influences with pride, but their charm is all their own. [Mar 2014, p.112]
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Jan 29, 2014On record, there is an irresistible sprightliness in the songs that says these guys haven’t worried once about their near-tribute sound.
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Jan 27, 2014‘Ways To Phrase A Rejection’ proves the four-piece do a good enough job of recreating the kitchen-sink narratives of the era, but where they really excel is when they slip back into the 21st century.
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Jan 24, 2014It’s the record’s most easy-to-appreciate moment, but whether there’s enough to the rest of it to ensure its makers aren’t soon to be forgotten remains to be seen.
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Jan 28, 2014Songs like "Unzip Your Harrington" and "Luv, Hold Me Down" aren't deep, but the charging-guitar shimmer and fun, facile choruses are pretty undeniable.
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Jan 27, 2014The music is a little too polished-sounding to have ever seen actual garages, and there doesn't seem to be much of the charm of, say, contemporaries Palma Violets, pervading any of the record's twelve tracks. But it's fun, and fun is sometimes just about enough.
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Jan 24, 2014Their brusque punk-pop style and his louche intonation suggest a tidier version of the Libertines.
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Jan 24, 2014Drowners can’t inspire too much ill will or really any kind of strong reaction and that’s fair enough: it doesn’t deal in hot, dirty sex or catastrophic breakups, mostly drunken hookups and easy letdowns.
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Jan 28, 2014The whole affair is ultimately an exercise in late-'90s indie rock ephemera, and like countless other acts before them, Drowners seem poised to fade away before they burn out.
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Jan 30, 2014Drowners prove themselves competent in making a tight indie rock album full of enjoyable melodies, but their strict adherence to formula and professionalism is undermining and can be dull.
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Jan 29, 2014Beneath its peacock plumage, preening, posturing and ‘performance’ there lies too little imagination.
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Jan 24, 2014As the album runs on, it's apparent Drowners' presiding influence is actually the Smiths, but in common with so many groups inspired by that most individual band, they lack what made the Smiths special.
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Jan 24, 2014Drowners is a fun little record, if you want to get all patronizing about it, but it’s difficult to get any further than that because of its staggering unoriginality.
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