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- Summary: This is the second album for the Brooklyn-based indie rock trio.
- Record Label: In The Red
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 21
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Mixed: 10 out of 21
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Negative: 0 out of 21
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Cassie Ramone sounds like a more confident guitarist, stretching out her leads, while the bass lines of Kickball Katy bubble out front to carry the melodies. And once again those melancholy harmonies are to die for, as Ramone chips off pieces of her heart in lamenting the boy who got away.
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MojoYoung, smart, pissed-off, ultra-basic, but also competent and powerful, these youngsters fire off brisk, bubblegum tunes in proud thrall to Da Brudders, and, by extension, girl-groups of the '60s. [Dec 2009, p.96]
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Vivian Girls have responded in a way I never saw coming. Everything Goes Wrong is, proudly and brilliantly, a long player.
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This is fun music that is all at once euphonic, brash, unsophisticated in its simplicity--but powerful for that same reason.
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Everything Goes Wrong is not a brazenly experimental album, nor is it rootless and shifting for cohesion.
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Those who were taken with the band before will likely believe this album lives up to last year’s blog-induced hype. However, everyone else will probably think that Everything Goes Wrong is, well, no fun.
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Q MagazineAside from the cavernous 'Tension' mosty of the tracks here are disappointingly interchangeable. [Nov 2009, p.114]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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eastsideSep 8, 2009
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