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09:51, 18 November 2008
Smalltown America Boombox• Youthmovies - Polyp EP
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Press: Single Reviews

Date Source + Headline Kind More
25/06/08 ZOO Magazine: Everyone Needs a Nemesis Single Review: Fighting With Wire - Everyone Needs A Nemesis view item
06/06/08 UK Music Review: Clone Quartet - Won't Somebody Please Single Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine view item
01/05/08 Rock Sound: they do have a good rock sound Single Review: Fighting With Wire - Everyone Needs A Nemesis view item
12/06/07 Maps: Will have you singing along before you even realise everyone else on the bus is looking at you Single Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine view item
26/05/07 Across The Line: A riot of ear-shredding beats and belligerence Single Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine view item
26/05/07 No Clarity: Thunderous, multi-instrumentalism heaven Single Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine view item
26/05/07 Plastic Ashtray: The fun of Pavement fed through an Amiga 500 Single Review: Clone Quartet - Well-Oiled Machine view item
23/06/06 Music News: 5/5 - Yr So Fit edges them close to new favourite band category Single Review: The Young Playthings - Yr So Fit (For Me) view item
12/06/06 Jukebox: Sunny, optimistic, romantic. Single Review: The Young Playthings - Yr So Fit (For Me) view item
08/06/06 The Downloader: Sun-scorched power pop that drips with the sass of teenage abandon Single Review: The Young Playthings - Yr So Fit (For Me) view item
19/05/06 The Sun: 4/5 Irresistibly beautiful melodies from the Belfast Duo. Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
18/05/06 Comfort Comes: Warm, fuzzy and irresistible Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
18/05/06 Contact Music: Oppenheimer can't fail to uplift you on even the greyest day Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
18/05/06 Designer Punk: An incredibly catchy and sugary melody that will remain in your head long after it's turned off Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
18/05/06 Get Ready to Rock: A new Buggles? Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
18/05/06 Tasty Fanzine: Sweeter than a chocolate ice pop Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
17/04/06 Indie London: A near-perfect pop moment Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
17/04/06 Manchester Music: In short it’s really, really head swimmingly good stuff Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
17/04/06 Sound Of Violence: 4/5: Les ventes suivront-elles? Ce ne serait que justice! Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
17/04/06 Manchester Music: In short it’s really, really head swimmingly good stuff Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
17/04/06 UK Music Search: Songs to make you swoon, dream and melt Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
17/04/06 Sounds Of Violence: 4/5: Ce ne serait que justice! Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
11/04/06 Room Thirteen: 11/13: The perfect soundtrack for the 2006 summer of love Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
05/04/06 Glasswerk: Songs that swoop down, pick you up and give you a huge metaphorical cuddle! Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
01/04/06 Subbacultcha: Hazy afternoon pop in the most glorious of forms! Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
01/04/06 Awake Today: A lo-fi version of the Postal Service Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
01/04/06 I Really Love Music: Simon and Garfunkel for the wired generation Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
29/03/06 Music OMH: A dreamy, quirky, gorgeous single Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
18/03/06 Music News: 4/5. A delicious slice of sunny pop Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
17/03/06 Rock City: 5/5. A killer chorus that’s the musical equivalent of a warm hug. Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
15/03/06 The Mag: 8/10 - As natural as a big pine tree in an area of untouched Caledonian woodland Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
11/03/06 Sounds XP: One of the most sublime pop moments you are likely to hear this year... Track of the month and that's no mistake Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
08/03/06 Hits in the Car: Immediately charming and catchy as any pop song you will hear this year Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
03/03/06 Backlash: Full of fun and humour yet brimming with wisdom and pathos Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
22/02/06 The Downloader: Why doesnt pop music sound like this anymore? Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
21/02/06 To Hell With: Naïve and heart-warming Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
21/02/06 Music News: The Young Playthings have unleashed a cracker Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
21/02/06 Comfort Comes: It brings us back to the glory days of indie Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
15/02/06 Airwaves Back: Pavement... making sweet, sweet love to the All Girl Summer Fun Band Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
12/02/06 Kissing Just For Practise: Pop. Rock 'n' roll. Emo. All rolled into one great big ball of FUN. Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
07/02/06 Rock Sound: Pummelling quiet/loud fury that would make Biffy Clyro stand with crossed arms and heads nodding in approval Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
03/02/06 Sound Of Violence: Dont le refrain pêchu permettra probablement au groupe de trouver son public Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
03/02/06 See You In The Pit: Tooth-achingly sweet and blindingly catchy Single Review: Oppenheimer - Breakfast In NYC/Truth Or Dare view item
24/01/06 Metro Scotland: A blistering romp of rock'n'roll carnage Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
20/01/06 Norman Records: Drive Like Jehu/At The Drive-In melodic turbo Grrrr-fest. Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
19/01/06 Artrocker: An ear for a tune accompanied by profound observations Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
11/01/06 Room Thirteen: these Scottish lads have clearly had their oats this morning Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
11/01/06 Slightly Confusing To A Stranger: Attack of the cymbals! Attack of the 15-armed guitars. Single Review: Fickle Public - Kittens Got Claws view item
10/01/06 Drowned In Sound: A rampant 150 seconds of intangibly emphatic rock Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
06/01/06 Coolnoise: Inventive and far from obvious Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
06/01/06 Music-dash.co.uk: Biffy wrestling with Weezer, whilst throwing Sonic Youth and Oceansize records at each other Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
05/01/06 UK Music Search: The illegitimate lovechild of Rites Of Spring, At The Drive-In and Britney Spears Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
05/01/06 Whisperinandhollerin.com: Their sheer exuberance here brings them sizzling home in style Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
05/01/06 Getreadytorock.com: Neil Young vocals... overlaid with a bludgeoning metal riff Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
05/01/06 Music-News.com: Monster Rock meets Weezer Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
05/01/06 Tasty Fanzine: Youch! Monstrous stadium sized power chord riffism Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
04/01/06 Joyzine.co.uk: An impressive piece of work Single Review: Fickle Public - Just Like I Got Used To Saying Courteney Cox Arquette view item
06/12/05 Filter Mini UK: Brilliant music to prolong the summer Single Review: The Young Playthings - Shes A Rebel view item
02/12/05 Airwaves Back: I fear fans with unstable hearts would lose their breath and, perhaps, die Single Review: Fickle Public - Kittens Got Claws view item
27/10/05 Drowned In Sound: We salute our Fickle Public Single Review: Fickle Public - Kittens Got Claws view item
18/10/05 New Noise: Mclusky do the Highlands Single Review: Fickle Public - Kittens Got Claws view item
17/10/05 London Rock Daily: Natural and uncontrived, but also deeply ambitious Single Review: Fickle Public - Kittens Got Claws view item
17/10/05 Planet Sound: ATD-I energy and SOAD time changes Single Review: Fickle Public - Kittens Got Claws view item
12/10/05 Time Out: Yay! Proper shouty hardcore punk Single Review: Fickle Public - Kittens Got Claws view item
12/10/05 Whats On: Sheer brilliance Single Review: Fickle Public - Kittens Got Claws view item
01/10/05 Artrocker Issue 22: Single of the year so far, no joke, no doubt Single Review: The Young Playthings - Love U Like That view item
01/12/04 Drowned In Sound: Fuck the PRs and fuck the chainstore-propelled mass consumption bullshit: THIS is what punk is about Single Review: Jetplane Landing - There Is No Real Courage Unless There Is Real Danger view item
01/12/04 Kerrang!: A glorious blast of post hardcore squall Single Review: Jetplane Landing - There Is No Real Courage Unless There Is Real Danger view item
01/05/04 Logo: Timeless passion of their self-invented real punk Single Review: Jetplane Landing - Brave Gravity view item
01/09/03 Logo: The perfect alternative punk record Single Review: Jetplane Landing - Calculate The Risk view item
01/09/03 Logo: A comeback that's second to none Single Review: Jetplane Landing - Calculate The Risk view item
01/09/03 Hotpress: Difficult, brainy, aggressive and surreal Single Review: Jetplane Landing - Calculate The Risk view item
01/09/03 Do Something Pretty: One of the most perfect blends of angular guitar and angsty pop I think I’ve heard Single Review: Jetplane Landing - Calculate The Risk view item
01/08/02 Losing It Today: The perfect power pop record for those baking hot days Single Review: Jetplane Landing - Summer Ends view item
01/03/02 Drowned In Sound: 2:10 of guitar pop heaven Single Review: Jetplane Landing - Summer Ends view item
01/03/02 Rock Sound: Sit back and prepare to watch them fly Single Review: Jetplane Landing - This Is Not Revolution Rock view item
01/02/02 Kerrang!: A melody to die for KKKKK Single Review: Jetplane Landing - Summer Ends view item
01/02/02 Playlouder: Single Of The Week Single Review: Jetplane Landing - Summer Ends view item
01/11/01 The Fly: Perfect. spiky, snappy rock, not a second wasted Single Review: Jetplane Landing - This Is Not Revolution Rock view item
01/10/01 NME: A Record Blissfully Ignorant Of Trends Single Review: Jetplane Landing - This Is Not Revolution Rock view item