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90
Throughout its ten pieces, Eagulls delivers in every conceivable way.
12y
83
These are songs that almost certainly take on extra ferocity in a live setting. Eagulls captures that intensity well, heralding one of England’s most promising new voices.
12y
80
Eagulls' density and intensity sometimes border on exhausting, but the album is an undeniably bracing beginning.
12y
80
For all the ugliness that spills out of Eagulls, they’re never anything less than vital; these are anthems for a doomed youth determined to kick against the pricks rather than mope forlornly and fruitlessly.
12y
80
More and more on repeated listens it occurs that this band genuinely do seem to give a shit more than most, about their music and the subject matter.
12y
80
A tour de force of Eagulls' brash and brazen-faced formula, this is a record that’ll be ringing in your ears for days after it’s finished.
12y
80
It’s punk in its truest sense – DIY guitar music, singing songs of counter-culture, protest at the reigning government and the worst facets of modern life. All the while concentrating on getting screwy.
12y
75
Imperfect as it might be, the album’s relentlessness is also it’s chief allure. In reality, Eagulls sounds more innovative than it probably is due to the world in which it arrives.
12y
70
It’s an uncompromising debut, and contains as much melody as brutality – even though they’d probably punch you for saying so.
12y
65
The Leeds-based quintet wraps post-punk's dark shadings over an engine of punk urgency and sends the whole thing howling downhill.
12y
58
The band surely know their strengths and have developed their sound, but the individual songs suffer when stacked on top of each other.
12y
Solid post punk record from the 2010s that has a nice spark to it, even if it is a little bit derivative of it's influences a little too much.
The tempo and pacing of this album does strike as somewhat one-note, but that is a pretty arty and aggressive note that they consistently hit throughout.
Standout: Possessed
Favs: Fester/Blister, Nerve Endings, Footsteps, Tough Luck, Yellow Eyes
Least fav: Soulless Youth
Solid post punk record from the 2010s that has a nice spark to it, even if it is a little bit derivative of it's influences a little too much.
A very lo-fi dreamy and dense sounding garage stuff to dance to. Cool riffs and nice aestetics. But for me some songs are a little dragged and occasionally repetetive and overly blurry. But thats just a take from a guy who's more onto proggy side. Still a charming record
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Track List
| 1 | Nerve Endings 4:03 | |
| 2 | Hollow Visions 3:19 | |
| 3 | Yellow Eyes 3:55 | |
| 4 | Tough Luck 4:01 | |
| 5 | Amber Veins 3:36 | |
| 6 | Possessed 3:07 | |
| 7 | Footsteps 4:09 | |
| 8 | Fester / Blister 2:38 | |
| 9 | Opaque 3:18 | |
| 10 | Soulless Youth 4:58 |
Total Length: 37 minutes
