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Sep 3, 2013Drenge’s debut is excellent, and it will no doubt have you appropriately ‘drenged’.
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Aug 21, 2013The Loveless brothers’ way with a one-liner coupled with their dexterity with rock dynamics is what sets them apart from their peers.
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Aug 19, 2013Their self-titled debut, aptly enough, is one of the most bitterly anti-romantic albums this side of the third PiL offering.
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Aug 19, 2013As changes of pace go, it should be far more jarring than it actually is, but instead it shows a much softer side to a band who should own this summer with their brilliantly heavy two-man mania.
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Aug 15, 2013The thrashing energy does relent somewhat towards the end, yet this remains an impressive introductory manifesto.
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Aug 15, 2013It’s all teeth, blood and bones, spit, grease and sweat but it’s a snarling yet intelligent beast of an album that stalks the landscape of British music like the unstoppable monster it threatens, and with a certain bloodlust, deserves to be.
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Aug 15, 2013The album becomes more expansive in scope the further through you listen.
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Aug 15, 2013The sound of rock'n'roll at its most raw and untamed.
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Aug 15, 2013There’s heaps of incendiary six-stringers, throttling beats and barbed tongues; it’s a potent brew that they peddle, but one that suits them just fine.
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UncutSep 5, 2013A promising debut.... But across a full album the monotony that fuels their material threatens to snuff out any sparks. [Oct 2013, p.65]
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Aug 27, 2013Drenge is giddily goofy.
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Q MagazineJan 27, 2014Too many of the riffs sound flimsy and thin when they should suckerpunch out of the speakers. [Oct 2013, p.100]
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Aug 15, 2013Drenge brothers Rory and Eoin Loveless exhibit virtually no overt blues influences, relying instead on the heavily distorted guitar riffs common to grunge and garage-band psychedelia.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 18 out of 20
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Mixed: 1 out of 20
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Negative: 1 out of 20
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Sep 14, 2013