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MojoApr 25, 2012Coldplay-style ascendance is entirely within reach. [May 2012, p.92]
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Apr 24, 2012Ways To Forget is a bar-raiser--an album of intelligent synth-pop bubbling with humanity.
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Apr 24, 2012Clock Opera have delivered a debut which, just about, delivers.
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Apr 24, 2012Not quite yet the coherent full album that its time in the making hinted at, but nonetheless a welcome addition to record collections.
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Apr 24, 2012Clock Opera's brand of mutilated pop music shimmers as a genuinely profound musical experience. Excuse the awful pun, but their time is most definitely now.
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Apr 24, 2012Much like their genre, Clock Opera's music is nothing new, but has charming roots.
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Q MagazineApr 27, 2012If the themes ate familiar then at least Clock Opera imbue them with a twisty, nervous heroism instead of indie's usual fatalist whingeing. [May 2012, p.94]
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Apr 24, 2012The album captures little of the Opera's live spirit.
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Apr 30, 2012Amidst the overstuffed yet predictable arrangements, the middle-of-the-road sentimentalism and lack of killer tunes, these brief moments can't prevent Ways To Forget itself proving to be largely forgettable.
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Apr 24, 2012More often than not, there's too much crammed in to be able pick those [beautiful] moments out.
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Apr 24, 2012Every intro twinkles and every chorus swells effectively enough. But if indie carries on like this, we're gonna need a bigger landfill.
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Apr 24, 2012Things limp from bad to tedious with 'White Noise', a song so passé it just bought its first shares in ITV Digital.