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There’s no better soundtrack to getting by and falling in love as the world wobbles unsteadily about us.
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You’d be hard pressed to say that they didn’t get it right on the first two, but Touchdown unites all that is great about countrymen Arctic Monkeys.
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These Englishmen have learned impulse control. Frontman Eamon Hamilton's playful yelp has given way to a sturdier sound.
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A slightly more polished and accessible album than their last, showing the band tightening their reigns slightly and turning in some of their tightest, cleanest work to date.
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Q MagazineFizzing with energy and wearing its Pixies hat with pride, Touchdown is a blast of brain-scrambled indie rock that reaches its apogee, of sorts, on the irresisitibly dumb 'Hey, Hey.' [May 2009, p.119]
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FilterTouchdown is the band at its best, most consistent and crowd-pleasing to date. [Spring 2009, p.106]
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Although only one song passes the five-minute mark, Touchdown overflows with ideas imaginatively sifted from a range of genres, and feels honest, infectious, and personable from beginning to end.
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Touchdown is a concise, flab-free 35 minutes of music made by a band, which despite their collective CVs, probably wouldn't be picked out of a line-up.
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There are fewer moments of reckless genre experiments on Touchdown than there were on past Brakes efforts, and when there are, they feel purposeful, like the band had some alt-country (or quick punk song) quota to fill.
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Oddly, the once-acerbic group is now best at being sweetly lovestruck. Now they need another facet that works as well.
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UncutBrakes, and this is not a criticism, are at their best when they do the opposite, pretending to be a nerdy indie-rock group while actually recording songs that are dumb as rocks. [May 2009, p.79]
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Under The RadarWhile not bringing many surprises, it will please existing fans and win more than a few new ones. [Spring 2009, p.64]
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Alternative Pressbrakesbrakesbrakes are as eclectic (musically) and clever (lyrically) as ever on their third album. [June 2009, p.98]
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The band's third full-length, Touchdown, is more of a 10-yard pass than a score.