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Dec 12, 2016While comparisons and familiar tones abound, they shouldn't detract from what Troy and Edwards excel at delivering. They mostly serve as touchstones to lock Deap Vally into the ranks of similar artists as genuinely concerned with rocking listeners into sweet submission.
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Sep 29, 2016Produced by Deap Vally and Yeah Yeah Yeah’s guitarist Nick Zinner, Femjism drags the band forward into a brave new future while keeping their mean, sexy, muscle-bound rock’n’roll snarl fully intact. A real blazer.
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Sep 15, 2016In terms of melody, Femejism is a more outwardly pop-leaning record than their debut, but the duo are still as heavy as Black Sabbath when they want to be.
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Sep 15, 2016Deap Vally were always turned to eleven, Femejism has them reaching for twelve.
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Sep 13, 2016A record that takes the blues-rock of 2013 debut Sistrionix, rases it to the ground and rebuilds something for which the phrase “new and improved” would be an understatement.
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Q MagazineSep 9, 2016Femejism is every bit as exhilarating as debut Sistronix. [Oct 2016, p.107]
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Sep 9, 2016If ‘Sistrionix’ was Deap Vally as a brooding teenager, Femejism is the more grown up and wiser young adult. Strong and independent, it has just realised that it doesn’t need to impress you, regardless of the immaculate construction that can’t help but bowl you over.
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Sep 14, 2016Femejism is a powerhouse album that exudes defiant independence without succumbing to tropes, but there are moments where it falters--the overly abrasive yelling on "Little Baby Beauty Queen" comes to mind.
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Sep 9, 2016Femejism may not have quite the same impact [as their debut Sistronix], but their second album has enough to it to suggest that Lindsey Troy and Julie Edwards will be able to maintain interest our vested interest.
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Sep 13, 2016Femejism does stand up as an album, with Deap Vally’s strident attitude holding the songs together, but the quality of the material is a little patchy.
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Sep 15, 2016Deap Vally are most compelling when they dig further than irreverently dismissing superficial, mainstreamed feminism, but rather go on to explore what makes modern womanhood disturbing or even terrifying, the omnipresent eye of patriarchy be damned.
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Oct 17, 2016There is very little substance either musically or lyrically, and by the end of the album it feels like the album is already recycling ideas.
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Sep 9, 2016There is probably a message buried somewhere within Femejism, but unfortunately it just comes across as lacklustre and contrived.