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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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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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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, 2025UNIVERSITY have given us themselves on their debut album, and we thank them for the glorious noise, chaos, mayhem and moments of calm which takes us to another world completely.
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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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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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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]
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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]