Drenge

Drenge - Drenge
Critic Score
Based on 16 reviews
2013 Ratings: #152 / 1115
User Score
Based on 75 ratings
2013 Rank: #203
Liked by 3 people
August 19, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
- / Label
Garage Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
No Ripcord

Its brash, brutish façade accelerates in a way that keeps the commendable aphorism hidden at a glance, but its intensity is an infectious science, alchemizing its influences into a championing 37-minute mass movement. 

80
Drowned in Sound

Comparisons will most commonly be made with The White Stripes, but the way Rory and his younger brother, singer and guitarist Eoin, take the blues rock template defined by the Detroit duo and make it their own reveals them to be alchemists rather than plagiarists. 

80
musicOMH

It’s neither too deliberately lo-fi sounding nor too glossy, and there’s a complete lack of bullshit about it.

80
NME

Drenge are true to their phonics, subjecting listeners to a gnarly, ultra-funky – and that’s in the stinky sense, not the Nile Rodgers sense – aural pummelling.

80
DIY

It’s all teeth, blood and bones, spit, grease and sweat but it’s a snarling yet intelligent beast of an album that stalks the landscape of British music like the unstoppable monster it threatens, and with a certain bloodlust, deserves to be.

75
The Line of Best Fit

There’s heaps of incendiary six-stringers, throttling beats and barbed tongues; it’s a potent brew that they peddle, but one that suits them just fine.

70
The 405

Drenge, though, manages to avoid this potential pitfall, presenting 12 tracks that fluctuate between straight up rock, and blues-y tones similar to those of The White Stripes, but keep enough of a common style to have a nice ebb and flow without becoming messy and uncoordinated.

rego
75

#27 of re-reviews (redoing past album reviews from way back when)

the band's album covers are always so aesthetically pleasing, i love it. well, i’ve loved them since forever but still, this shit looks so damn good.

during this period of my life in 2020 (ah yes, music when music was music for me at this point), i was very into pitchfork’s recommendations. a lot of them stuck onto me, or more accurately stayed collecting dust in my library after a few couple listens, with releases ... read more

ethannn
90

This album is very important to me personally for many reasons but as a 16 year old it was the first album i ever listened to without already knowing much about the band or heard their songs before. I was immediately blown away and i am so happy that it hasn't worn off me yet. I still think it is a truly phenomenal debut full of dark imagery, themes of emotional abuse and toxic relationships. These themes are obviously not rare in music but Eoin Loveless brings such a sharp wit that some of the ... read more

rosevean
83

#4 I Want to Break You in Half
#7 Face Like a Skull
#8 I Don't Want to Make Love to You
#11 Let's Pretend
#12 Fuckabout

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Track List

  1. People in Love Make Me Feel Yuck
  2. Dogmeat
  3. I Want to Break You in Half
  4. Bloodsports
  5. Backwaters
  6. Gun Crazy
  7. Face Like a Skull
  8. I Don't Want to Make Love to You
  9. Nothing
  10. Bye Bye Bao Bao
  11. Let's Pretend
  12. Fuckabout

Year End Lists

#13/NME
#43/The Fly
#89/musicOMH
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Added on: August 13, 2013