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Kerrang!Jun 24, 2016With a raw energy that engrosses even the casual listener, this Manchester quartet simply take your attention without asking. [25 Jun 2016, p.52]
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Jun 21, 2016Raw, rambunctious, rollicking and rowdy, Spring King’s debut offering is further proof that the future of rock ’n' roll is achingly thrilling.
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Jun 13, 2016It may be post-punk in the way that the Fonz was proto-punk, but Musa’s tail-thumping ambition to construct the perfect chorus lifts even the lesser songs.
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Jun 8, 2016Tell Me If You Like To possesses the same breakneck speed spirit of their first steps. But it’s also a full-bodied beast, the sound of a band racing to the finish line to accept their prize.
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Aug 1, 2016Tell Me If You Like To often finds the band kicking and screaming, both in downtrodden passion and in high spirits. What makes Spring King one of a kind is that they do not feel the need to differentiate the two.
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UncutJun 8, 2016Like coiled springs, this Manchester four-piece fire out jabs of tight pop-punk energy that seem created with the intention of filling an indie dancefloor. [Jul 2016, p.79]
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Jul 15, 2016Spring King might have plenty of bangers, but they should switch up their MO more often.
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Jun 9, 2016Inevitably for a debut album, Tell Me If You Like To leans heavily on the singles already released--Demons, Who Are You?, Rectifier, The Summer and Detroit, which is a lot of previously released material for a 10-track, 36-minute album--but it’s all delivered with intensity.
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Q MagazineJun 8, 2016It's an enjoyable debut, but a few more surprises like [a saxophone solo in Who Are You] would've helped mix things up. [#361, p.115]
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Jun 8, 2016Spring King are at their restless best when Musa--who sometimes vomits on and just-offstage from exhaustion--sounds uncomfortable.
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Jun 8, 2016Disposable lyrics and an overly polished sound doesn’t necessarily mean that this is a bad album, though--it’s not, although it is likely to get lost in the midst of this year’s more thought-provoking and risk-taking albums.