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Jul 26, 2016That a record so dark and ripe with nuance can also harbour such blatant pop sensibility belies the duo’s young age while serving as a testament to their rampant eccentricities.
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Jun 16, 2016Let’s Eat Grandma have made one of the most intoxicating, inventive and original records of the year.
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Aug 2, 2016There is something unsettling but ultimately compulsive about this record. From the opening moments of ‘Deep Six Textbook’, you feel compelled to listen attentively and follow the whole oddball affair to its conclusion.
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The WireJul 18, 2016This meld of savoury-sweet singing, moreish melody, glistening texture, strange space and surprises galore makes I, Gemini the best pop-not-pop album since Micachu & The Shapes' Jewellery. [Jun 2016, p.47]
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Jul 6, 2016The more you listen to this record, the more it impresses you, even if their name is downright awful.
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Jun 23, 2016Working with a lo-fi palette of mostly acoustic instruments, they’ve conjured a weird wonderland in which Angela Carter meets Bjork round at Robert Wyatt’s.
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Jun 16, 2016By rights it should be a mess, but it turns out to be a beguiling brew.
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Q MagazineJun 16, 2016Yes, there's a touch of the body-painted Glastonbury theatre troupe here, but Let's Eat Grandma's spell is binding. [#361, p.111]
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UncutJun 16, 2016This is a satisfying strange listen. [Jul 2016, p.75]
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Jun 16, 2016Exploration of I, Gemini reveals its quirks are knitted together with extreme smoothness.
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Jun 30, 2016With I, Gemini Let’s Eat Grandma not only hold their own with their predecessors, but they also create a world that demands you come to it on its own terms, not the other way around. An impressive achievement from musicians of any age.
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Jul 15, 2016Not everything works, and the second side maybe gets bathed in one too many foggy organ dirges, but I, Gemini is like the chorus subject in weirdo-pop single of the year “Eat Shiitake Mushrooms”: Never invincible, but never predictable.
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Jun 17, 2016At times, Hollingworth and Walton's freewheeling experimentation gets a little too chaotic, but I, Gemini is an adventurous debut filled with moments of surprising beauty and humor.
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Jul 14, 2016The U.K. duo's inventive sonic range--including massive gyrating synths, tender glockenspiel chimes, and even a spot of (perhaps ill advised) rhyme spitting--points to unexpectedly ripened ears.