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May 30, 2024Despite the fullness of its sound, ‘Call A Doctor’ never loses its personal touch, too. “You’ve been swell / Oh, what the hell / You’ve been dear,” closes James on ‘Outro’, bringing all this colourful melodrama to a touching end.
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May 30, 2024The debut full-length album from Brisbane, Australia's Girl and Girl, 2024's Call a Doctor, crackles with a youthful enthusiasm that finds the quartet ably balancing a mix of late-'70s and early-'80s post-punk and jangle pop influences.
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May 30, 2024Kai James’ overt framing of the album acts as a sort of meta literary device, immediately establishing its character and concept (namely, himself and his own mental ill-health) with the narrative nous of fellow Aussie Courtney Barnett. Indeed, over the course of the next ten tracks, it’s as if you’ve been transposed directly into James’ frontal cortex.
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May 30, 2024Even though some of the songs on Call a Doctor are not entirely fleshed out, there are plenty of positives to build upon for the future.
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Aug 1, 2024Call a Doctor is worth checking out, especially for the moments when they rock out and seem about to take off, even if they never quite do. Girl and Girl is certainly a band to watch, but they may need to loosen up their songwriting to truly reach their potential.