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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the Australian trio that includes The Drones/Tropical Fuck Storm's Gareth Liddiard, The Necks' Chris Abrahams and Dirty Three/Xylouris White's Jim White.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
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  1. Mojo
    Dec 21, 2021
    80
    Springtime has two approaches, one more methodical, like the intense needling Will To Power. ... The other is rooted in improv. [Jan 2022, p.84]
  2. Dec 21, 2021
    80
    They weave their instruments around each other deftly, with nobody stomping on toes. ... The anger and the grief are broken up by moments of beauty. ... These moments of respite from the darkness, where Springtime lets the sunshine part the clouds, are where they are the most powerful.
  3. The Wire
    Dec 21, 2021
    80
    Springtime’s music feels free, but never carefree, full of spontaneity, acidity and momentum, sputtering in a thousand different, noisy directions at once. [Dec 2021, p.56]
  4. Dec 21, 2021
    70
    Springtime isn’t some hopeful calling card made inside the industry machine. More infernal than vernal, it’s a document – of the coming together of three old hands and kindred spirits at a time when everything around them (and us) was coming apart. [Jan 2022, p.18]
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  1. May 11, 2022
    10
    This was the best album of 2021 in my opinion. The Australian "supergroup" have come up with stunning slowburning originals along with aThis was the best album of 2021 in my opinion. The Australian "supergroup" have come up with stunning slowburning originals along with a couple poignant covers. Expand