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Oct 3, 2013[A] fine new Joanna Gruesome record.
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Sep 17, 2013With Weird Sister, attentiveness pays off, and rewards with deeper comprehension of what this band are about.
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Sep 11, 2013Sometimes gloriously messy, sometimes just simply glorious, it is probably the most fun you'll have all year rhyming with harpists.
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Sep 10, 2013Joanna Gruesome make music that's at once breath-catchingly exciting and heartwarmingly pretty at its core, and their first album is one that noise pop fans will treasure, crummy name and all.
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Sep 10, 2013Weird Sister’s ebbs, flows, peaks and troughs: a shape-shifting, nuanced LP that could be described as derivative, but never formulaic.
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Sep 13, 2013A deeply passionate, impossibly noisy twee record.
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Dec 2, 2013Weird Sister can be a little grating or samey at points, but overall it's refreshing to hear a '90s revival band that actually has the furious lo-fi energy of the period nailed.
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Nov 1, 2013They plug in and play their hearts out on their debut album, with twin-guitar fuzz-pop gems.
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Oct 21, 2013On Weird Sister, Joanna Gruesome exotic blooms--forget the Ys and wherefores, and cue some!
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Sep 25, 2013The playful and passionate Weird Sister is the natural, exhilarating sound of influences--shoegaze, hardcore, riot grrrl--being assembled in new ways.
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Sep 10, 2013While there’s a bit of a formula to be spotted, it’s one that works for them--given that it’s new to us, it’s easy to appreciate and doesn’t wear too thin over Weird Sister's duration.
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UncutOct 10, 2013Despite the defiant attitude and serious subject matter, their excitably chaotic squalls, leaves a trail of sonic pile-ups too often both predictable and over-familiar. [Nov 2013, p.72]
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Sep 10, 2013There may not be enough to lift them above the rather crowded market of similar sounding contemporaries on Weird Sister, but it does hint at a solid enough future.