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May 27, 2022Just Mustard have said they wanted their second album, Heart Under, to make the listener feel like they are driving through a tunnel with the windows down. And on this noisy, wonderfully chaotic record, the band seems to have nailed it. ... The inventive beats make you want to dance.
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May 25, 2022A truly unique gem. ... The band have said they want ‘Heart Under’ to feel like the experience of driving through a tunnel with the windows down. Through deliciously inventive musicianship they’ve created something even more thrilling.
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Jun 30, 2022It's easy to get sucked into darkness and despair, Heart Under proves that so, but thankfully, Ball's voice oversees that listeners only merely toe into these bottomless, murky waters.
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May 25, 2022Swampy and tumultuous like a month’s worth of rain, the Dundalk five-piece have spared no expense in creating immersive, cavernous spaces of shoegazing, post-punk splendour.
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May 25, 2022Heart Under is simultaneously ghostly and glorious, a wretched yet emancipatory tornado of distorted dissonance that places the band among the vanguard of the British Isles’ ever-crowded post-punk scene.
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May 31, 2022The wicked atmosphere that they’ve crafted across Heart Under is worthy of celebration alone.
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May 27, 2022One of Just Mustard’s strengths is that no single strength attempts to outshine the others. David Noonan’s and Mete Kalyoncuoglu’s guitars don’t shred or solo, they swarm and swirl. Robert Hodgers Clarke’s undertowing bass lines rattle the foundations that Shane Maguire’s insistent drumming create.
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May 26, 2022Heart Under thrums with menace, a glint of teeth always on display yet never fully bared. Heart Under is an album rooted in anticipation: Just Mustard know it’s the glimmer of danger that’s most enthralling of all.
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May 25, 2022Heart Under is an ear-piercing piece of intuitively crafted work.
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May 25, 2022A striking, fantastically original work, this is an album that taps into animalistic emotion.
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Jun 7, 2022Rather than holding up a torch, Heart Under adjusts your eyes to the pitch black.
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Positive: 24 out of 28
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Mixed: 2 out of 28
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Negative: 2 out of 28
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May 29, 2022Sounds like Portishead, My Bloody Valentine and PJ Harvey, tense and sonically interesting.
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Jun 3, 2022