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Apr 22, 2016This is the result of three women who have perfected their sound, now it’s our job to listen.
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Jun 2, 2016On the whole, Nosebleed Weekend is a triumph, The Coathangers’ strongest top-to-bottom album and one that proves the band can maintain its essence as it evolves.
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Apr 14, 2016Its excellence and momentum vastly outweigh one’s ability to describe it.
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Apr 14, 2016The 13 songs on Nosebleed Weekend communicate angst, anger, and regret by turns, but that feeling of comfort rests like a soft pillow at the very bottom of the mix, giving the trio enough confidence to explore corners of their sound they had never thought to unearth before.
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MagnetJun 1, 2016On their fifth album, the ’Hangers burrow deep into the world of post-garage pop that feels not too far afield from Georgia indie-rock kin Pylon covering Suzi Quatro. [No. 131, p.55]
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May 6, 2016While some tracks do begin to sound alike, the effortless cool that drips from the more fleshed-out and established cuts provides Nosebleed Weekend with more than enough substance to make up for them.
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Apr 20, 2016Polished without losing all its edge, Nosebleed Weekend is another well-written collection with little flab, despite being the Atlanta trio's longest LP to date.
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Apr 14, 2016If calling Nosebleed Weekend the Coathangers' most professional work to date sounds like damning with faint praise, it admirably confirms this band isn't messing around.
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Apr 22, 2016The change of scenery manifests in the album’s wider sonic palette as the trio embrace classic pop (Down Down), garage-rock (Had Enough), surf punk (Watch Your Back) and even resemble a grunged-up Heart on Perfume.
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Apr 21, 2016The record resists you making sense of it. It hits, laughs, ends.
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Apr 14, 2016Nosebleed Weekend goes for the gut and mostly hits it dead-on. Occasionally their ideas get the better of them.
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Apr 14, 2016The Coathangers bring some good punk sensibility to the table but the majority of these tracks lack the velocity that would bring them into moshable territory.