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Jul 31, 2012Language is quite an impressive debut. Zulu Winter masterfully juxtapose adventurous and sexualized production with [mostly] touching, sorrowful songs. In other words, it's something you can dance to in public and reflect on in private. That's not an easy balance to maintain, but Zulu Winter does it well here.
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Jun 6, 2012Language is a sturdy and well-produced collection which, given the right exposure, sounds like the sort of thing that could be very large indeed.
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Jun 6, 2012This debut is a polished effort which manages to balance both sweeping synth pop with euphoric indie anthems.
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Jun 6, 2012This is eccentric indie pop with a slightly off-kilt flavour.
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Aug 21, 2012Language is short on originality, but Zulu Winter's polished musicianship and warm confidence may be enough to win over listeners who enjoy the bands they reference here, and when they do succeed in shaking things up it's enough to leave listeners wanting more.
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Under The RadarJul 9, 2012Language can feel tepid and assuring at the same time. [Jun 2012, p.151]
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Q MagazineJun 22, 2012The melancholic croon of frontman Will Daunt, a man who sounds as if he's caressing a broken heart rather than nursing it, give these ever-so-now songs an old-world charisma. [Jun 2012, p.115]
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Jun 20, 2012For a band that spent a year in solitude writing and recording Language, Zulu Winter sound an awful lot like everyone else out there.
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Jun 6, 2012A few strokes of fortune might send this London quintet--or, say, Clock Opera or Fixers--towards stratospheric hugeness.
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Jun 21, 2012Doused in interminable glimmering drones and wimpers, spending 45 minutes in its company feels like being smothered inside a snowglobe.