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May 16, 2014Thumpers maintain a vertigo-high quality on Galore, and provide us with another option in the hotly-contested battle for ‘album of the summer’.
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May 19, 2014Positivity has no bounds, and in Galore this London duo has successfully created a prescription for crummy moods, rain soaked commutes and even the slightest hint of misery.
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Feb 14, 2014Listening to Galore kind of feels like growing up, as it perfectly balances a combo of bittersweet nostalgia, hopeful optimism and an impending sense of something bigger and better to come.
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Feb 13, 2014The songs seem utterly fresh, imbued with an aural sense memory that transports you back to lost summers and nostalgic snapshots of a half-remembered past, a glorious time before the realities of the world caught up with you, where anything was possible and everything lay ahead of you.
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May 15, 2014Galore is an odd proposition for a debut album. It feels more transitional than a definitive statement of who Thumpers are, and that’s a hugely exciting thing.
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Feb 13, 2014This faith in the lives lived in the days before the darkness closes in grants Thumpers their transformative power and their unlimited naïveté its unique charm.
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Feb 13, 2014Constructed with flawlessness in mind, Galore succeeds in its ability to sound intensely produced and polished but never sterile.