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Sep 28, 2011The album is nothing like a career-killer, but it is a career-worrier.
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Sep 27, 2011Wahile Girls have returned brimming with confidence and enthusiasm, this record seems to overstretch them.
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Q MagazineSep 23, 2011In the end, the try-everything approach works out: if only because Girls' scatterbrained classic rock patchwork is so idiosyncratically odd. [Oct 2011, p.124]
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Sep 13, 2011While there are some real successes here, Father, Son, Holy Ghost is extremely inconsistent.
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UncutSep 9, 2011"Die" is generic glam riffage, and "Magic" is a tedious Britpop stomp, but there are many successes. [Oct 2011, p.86]
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Sep 9, 2011The lo-fi arrangements are messy, too. Gospel choirs? Stadium rock riffs? Six minute folk songs in no hurry to find the nearest chorus? All feature here--not always seemlessly, but always with a certain charm.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 46
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Mixed: 2 out of 46
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Negative: 1 out of 46
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Oct 8, 2011
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