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Mar 17, 2014This is music that operates at full force at all times.
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Apr 4, 2014Perfect Pussy constantly find new ways to stimulate that teenage bit of your brain that wants to scream and punch things and has a lot of things to say but doesn’t know how to say them.
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Mar 12, 2014Frankly, Say Yes To Love is absolutely stunning--a blistering mission statement from a band with undoubtable promise and inextinguishable fire.
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Mar 17, 2014It doesn’t feel corny or hyperbolic to call this record life-affirming, so perfectly does it capture the flashes of gratitude, self-knowledge, and inexplicable joy that often follow an experience of great pain.
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Mar 18, 2014The eight-song release is a runaway train, screaming down the tracks but controlled enough that it never runs off the rails.
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MagnetApr 18, 2014While it's a deeply cathartic break-up record, it's both personal and political. [No. 108, p.57]
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Mar 24, 2014Say Yes To Love feels like a purging, 20-odd minutes of urgent expulsion that leaves you feeling exhausted, elated and renewed.
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Mar 18, 2014Say Yes to Love is a heart-punch of an album--eight songs, 23 minutes--where the words are mostly buried under guitar feedback and synth squeals. Yet the raw passion comes across loud and clear.
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Mar 17, 2014The blanket of noise is provided by her male cohorts, but the lynchpin of PP’s allure is undoubtedly Meredith, another artist key to redressing the great gender imbalance that never goes away.
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Mar 17, 2014The sonic clarity is improved somewhat, but it's still messy as hell, meaning that Say Yes to Love sounds more like another demo than a proper album.
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Mar 17, 2014Perfect Pussy choose to shroud the clarity of their words in thick sheets of noise makes for a fascinating, if frustrating contrast; the only way to fully absorb their music is to put in the time with repeated listening and reading the lyrics. Fortunately, that's not a problem with an album as thought-provoking as Say Yes to Love.
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Mar 17, 2014Graves' earnest lyrics are purposely mixed far beneath the caustic instrumentals here, but when a few words do surface, we're treated to thoughtful (if only partial) confessions.
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Mar 13, 2014At a succinct length, the album does exactly what it needs to do without a second to spare.
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UncutMar 12, 2014They continue the template of their superb I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling cassette last year. [Apr 2014, p.78]
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Mar 12, 2014We’ve only got eight tracks here, about twenty or so minutes of music, but not a second of it is wasted, and just about every moment is brilliant.
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Mar 19, 2014Their thorny noise pit might occlude itself to many listeners--it’s not pretty, and it’s not for everyone. Those who recognize themselves in the havoc, though, will find themselves nesting there for a long while to come.
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Mar 21, 2014An uncompromising set of solid songs set on the internal and external eve of destruction.
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Mar 19, 2014For now, this band’s M.O.--Graves’ machine gun mouth racing the bands’s nerve-strung music to the finishing line of each 113 plus/minus-second blast--is welcome in the currently, often drowsy world of indie guitar music.
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Mar 17, 2014Say Yes to Love is a potently wrought 22 minutes of febrile noise-punk that contains enough in the way of hook and subtle invention amidst its familiar battery to stand up on its own feet.
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Mar 18, 2014While it’s respectable to see such a young band attempt to defy the expectations of its audience, Say Yes To Love ultimately sees Perfect Pussy getting out ahead of itself, suggesting the band would be better served securing an identity before attempting to redefine it.
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Mar 28, 2014Perfect Pussy is almost definitely a band to be experienced live rather than on record, but as statements of intent go, Say Yes to Love is an incredibly powerful one.
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Mar 20, 2014There’s real talent here. However, these unflinchingly honest punks still have yet to figure out what to do with all the noise they channel.
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Q MagazineMar 14, 2014This isn't music designed to be passively enjoyed and it's all the more thrilling for it. [Apr 2014, p.116]
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May 7, 2014It is familiar. It is, despite whatever priggishness keeps some publications from printing the band’s name in full, safe.
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Mar 12, 2014Say Yes to Love gets bogged down in some questionably drawn-out experimentation toward the end, but that can't undo the face-peeling impact of its first 15 minutes.
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