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Sep 27, 2013The timbre or the texture of the sounds they make is worth noting while working through Smilewound, but hardly worth returning specifically for.
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Nov 18, 2013They are trying too hard for precocious-ness, not enough for worn-in beauty.
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Sep 16, 2013Smilewound traipses all over the place, sometimes tripping as it finds it’s path. But when it does, it surges with moments of delicate finesse and threatening omnission.
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Sep 9, 2013It's remarkable that an album with so much fast, dynamic percussion still has such a lugubrious pace, which makes all the sharp details drift by in an indistinct mass.
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Q MagazineJan 27, 2014There's still the odd detour into eerie atmospherics, but essentially this is electronica for people who fine The Knife hard going, with recent Kylie collaboration, Whistle, providing a final dusting of pop sugar. [Oct 2013, p.106]
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UncutSep 3, 2013Smilewound finds the woolly jumpered collective coasting through another set of impressionistic glitch-pop and clockwork exotica. [Sep 2013, p.92]