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- Summary: The debut full-length release for the British rock trio was produced by Pulp's Steve Mackey.
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- Record Label: Kobalt
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mixed: 2 out of 11
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May 9, 2016With Alas Salvation, they’ve set a marker for every borderline-insane newcomer emerging in the next decade.
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May 9, 2016As we're thrown directly and unmercifully into 'Curtain Twitcher', we're already heavily bruised from the first half of the album, and will have to wait until 'Take It' to finally take a breath.
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May 9, 2016Every so often a new band will arrive clamouring that guitar music isn’t dead, as if they’re mid-CPR. Yak have crash-landed clutching its still-beating heart, wearing an irrepressible grin.
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Q MagazineMay 9, 2016Yak shoot from the hip with an impetuous first-timers' racket that's rarely short of breathtaking. [Jul 2016, p.113]
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May 12, 2016You’re unlikely to be writing critical analyses of the lyrics, but you don’t need to with a record that sounds as exciting as this. Even better, there’s melody to go with noise.
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Jun 22, 2016Yak haven’t reinvented the wheel, but their work is invigorating in its own right.
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MojoMay 9, 2016While the production still feels ill-judged, there are some crackling tracks. [Jun 2016, p.92]
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