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- Summary: The debut full-length release from British rock band UNIVERSITY was produced with Kwes Darko.
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- Record Label: Transgressive
- Genre(s): Punk, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Noise-Rock
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MojoJul 15, 2025Their onslaught harbours moments of intense, unlikely beauty, while theirs surface attack is a testament to hardcore's enduring power to shock and thrill. [Sep 2025, p.82]
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Jun 23, 2025If you've been wanting to hear a band make a bunch of fractured noise and love every moment of it, UNIVERSITY is here for you and McCartney, It'll Be OK is their gift to the noise lovers of the world.
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Jun 23, 2025Clashing, cluttered, chaotic, challenging, ‘McCartney, It’ll Be OK’ is a venture beyond the conventional consideration of ‘progressive’, one to simultaneously blow eardrums and provoke minds.
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Jul 11, 2025The earlier EP was impressive but they’ve noticeably pushed themselves further here, achieving something sharper, more their own.
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UncutJun 23, 2025They lurch with satisfying abandon through funereal Slint-like post-rock to unashamedly slovenly pixies-ish riffs to splenetic blasts of screaming hardcore and staccato math-rock scrapes, as Zak Bowker intermittently makes his strangled screams heard above the maelstrom. [Jun 2025, p.41]
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Record CollectorJul 14, 2025Musically, it is akin to a stack of chairs balanced precariously on a tightrope. [Aug 2025, p.105]
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Classic Rock MagazineAug 26, 2025They're clearly having a blast, in every sense - there's enough noirish sarcasm to make that clear - but there's also a punk nihilism at play that makes this debut album a compellingly unsettling listen. [Sep 2025, p.77]