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Invitation to Her's
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Invitation to Her's Image
Metascore
70

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  • Summary: This is the debut full-length release for the Liverpool-based dream pop duo of Audun Laading and Stephen Fitzpatrick.
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Q Magazine
    Aug 24, 2018
    80
    Her's mine post-punk and new wave with a tasteful restraint, fusing Scritti Polotti's twinkling, slinky grooves with the luminous lugubriousness of Orange Juice to create something that feels distinctly theirs. [Sep 2018, p.113]
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  2. Uncut
    Aug 24, 2018
    60
    For every blissful "Mannie's Smile" there's some Bontempi bossanova or a fretless bass ballad like "Breathing Easy" that swims in kitsch. [Sep 2018, p.30]
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  3. DIY Magazine
    Aug 24, 2018
    60
    Invitation to Her’s is an occasionally jarring listen, thanks to its stylistic restlessness, but there’s enough substance behind the silliness to leave you feeling they’re following through on their early prom
  4. The Skinny
    Aug 24, 2018
    60
    By its closing tracks though, the relative lack of shade to balance the bubblegum-coloured light can become a bit cloying, the endearing charm of the sugary nature fading slightly. Nevertheless, Laading and Fitzpatrick have still delivered a debut that suggests they’ll be continuing to craft impossibly catchy off-kilter pop for years to come.

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  1. Crackhead666
    Jun 6, 2020
    10
    RIP Her’s. Okay so I paid around 100 USD to get this gorgeous vinyl. I waited every day for it to arrive from the Motherland of England, allRIP Her’s. Okay so I paid around 100 USD to get this gorgeous vinyl. I waited every day for it to arrive from the Motherland of England, all the way to the middle of nowhere USA. The day it arrived was better than Christmas as I hate Christmas and most holidays and my life most days but any day I get a vinyl is a good day. I popped it on, lit some Nag champa and turned out the lights to be crooned by candlelight by the beautiful and mysterious voice of the Ghost of Stephen Fitzpatrick. I swear I felt something touch me and it scared the **** out of me. This is the best record of modern music I have heard in years, with lyrics that are absolutely insane. It’s like their lyrics can be applied to your life if you understand what I mean- they are just timeless. Audun’s bass playing is also that of a genius who would have gone on to be a legend but he earned it just with this album. I can see these guys bickering over the songs as they were professional musicians who earned degrees in Music. Absolutely haunting, breathtaking songs. One of the song lyrics goes like (from memory my bad if it’s not correct) “crack the window let the smoke of my troubles disperse...” like a prayer to their death, letting us know they are okay. And I am positive they are, still making music in the other world where we all came from, this album is some straight Seance spooky stuff. They even have a song about phone sex which is very cute as I can imagine them not being very good with the girls and he sings sweetly about how he’s not like those guys and he just wants to talk all night... incredibly creative songwriting. The person who mixed and produced this album is a genius, I believe he is a smaller time indie guy, my heart goes out to you, as you are a genius on their level as well. Also, Stephen programmed the drums as he is a drummer too. His guitar playing is so incredibly inventive that as a guitarist it takes my breath away and he is a finger picker. They said this album is influenced by their love for the TV show Twin Peaks (same) and this inspiration somehow created this timeless spooky album. Buy this album you will not be disappointed and you will be spooked or perhaps touched by a Her’s like I was.… Expand
  2. Leo62
    Aug 23, 2022
    0
    A very basic album, it got to bore me while listening, These are not songs I would listen to in the future.