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Jul 22, 2014Overall, 5 Seconds of Summer is a delightful debut from a group that cannot be easily pigeonholed, and is worth paying attention to.
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Jul 2, 2014Ultimately, 5 Seconds of Summer have crafted an album of songs that stick in your head like neon bubblegum on a hot summer sidewalk.
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Jul 2, 2014No one will argue 5 Seconds Of Summer is high art, but it ultimately works more often than it doesn’t. And, perhaps most important of all, it feels authentic.
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Jul 25, 2014Hemmings and his bandmates match these frank admissions with music that’s equally straightforward.
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Kerrang!Jul 23, 2014Although everything is rendered with a high-shine gloss and sanitised precision that makes it more saccharine than Sex Pistols, there's still an enjoyment to be had on a basic level. [5 Jul 2014, p.53]
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Jul 22, 2014In truth, 5 Seconds of Summer are unlikely to replace their elders any time soon. But they do provide a nice alternative--one with fetching songs and just enough sass to stand out.
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Jul 22, 2014The band's members pitched in writing for nearly every track on their debut, which starts with "She Looks So Perfect" and proceeds through 11 more übertame pop-punk songs about love and heartbreak that wish they were as great (power ballad "Beside You" comes closest). Still, their self-deprecating tunes have their charms.
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Jul 2, 2014Aimed squarely at the teenage market, it's shrill exuberance and lyrical mischief all round as songs leap and sometimes creak under the weight of their double entendres.
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Jul 2, 2014There's nothing desperately original about the 12 songs on their debut album.... But they're delivered with such winning enthusiasm that they make an old formula seem fresh.
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Jul 21, 2014The lyrics leave no room for subtext--“Good girls,” goes the kickiest song’s thesis, “are bad girls that haven’t been caught”--and the gleaming instrumentation sounds untouched by human hands.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 119 out of 198
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Mixed: 19 out of 198
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Negative: 60 out of 198
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