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- Record Label: Roadrunner Records
- Release Date: Sep 29, 2014
- Artist(s): Sam Macintyre, Becca Macintyre, Josh Macintyre, Will Bottomley
- Summary: The debut full-length release for the British alternative rock quintet formed by two set of siblings was produced by Larry Hibbitt.
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- Record Label: Roadrunner Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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Kerrang!Oct 10, 2014At its best, The Weird And Wonderful is as fine an articulation of the thrills, spills and general confusion of being young and different in the UK as you're likely to hear. [13 Sep 2014, p.52]
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Oct 10, 2014Sure, a lot of this has been done before, but not often with this level of assurance and class on a debut album.
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Oct 10, 2014You would need massive amounts of time on your hands in order to write, refine and record a debut album as thrilling as The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets.
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Oct 10, 2014Best of all, though, is the dynamism of the music: although songs flit around from riff to riff, as if Marmozets were bursting to fill each song with ideas, they are never too full, never just exercises in technique.
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Q MagazineOct 10, 2014This is a very impressive, ambitious debut. [Oct 2014, p.113]
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Oct 10, 2014Add a tad more polish--if they so choose--and it’s surely only a matter of time before they’re razing the main stages to the ground.
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Oct 10, 2014There’s just not enough of that unhinged brilliance across the board unfortunately; a little more weirdness might have led to something wonderful. As it is, this is a assured debut, but lacking any real surprises.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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