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May 12, 2015With Peanut Butter, Joanna Gruesome have raised the bar.
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MagnetJun 8, 2015The Welsh quintet's second release goes down as easy as a mixtape on a '90s spring day. [No. 121, p.57]
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Jun 2, 2015Peanut Butter is an accomplished, confident and mature approach to a type of music indebted to teenage energy, a record that veers between styles of music that are often at odds with one another without ever feeling indecisive or confused.
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May 15, 2015With ten ridiculously infectious songs clocking in at just 22 minutes, Joanna Gruesome are in no danger of wearing out their welcome.
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May 15, 2015Based on Weird Sister, Joanna Gruesome didn't seem like the kind of band to bow to pressure or to fall down on the job. The intense and quite wonderful Peanut Butter is bracing proof of that fact.
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May 13, 2015These days lots of different bands/songs are called noise pop, but these folks are doing it right.
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May 8, 2015Joanna Gruesome have adapted, honed and stretched their sound on Peanut Butter, and though nothing here sticks in the brain quite like ‘Sugarcrush’ or ‘Secret Surprise’, their tip as one of Britain’s brightest new hopes is more than backed up on this showing.
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May 8, 2015Ebullient, thundering and made with unabashedly 90s vigour.
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May 8, 2015The band is tighter, more focused, and have honed their sound ever more slightly, tossing in snippets of texture and becoming even leaner.
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UncutApr 30, 2015Short, but invigoratingly sweet. [Jun 2015, p.77]
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Apr 30, 2015Peanut Butter sees Joanna Gruesome relishing the power of refusal, bending the tropes of macho rock and relationships to their own twisted whims.
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Apr 30, 2015Peanut Butter’s 10 songs fizz by in no time at all. A livid onslaught of pop suss.
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May 19, 2015Taken in one full burst, Peanut Butter succeeds as a rousing and frenetic call to arms, built on the back of sunny harmonies and squealing distortion. It’s not the best record of the year, but it might be the most efficient.
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May 19, 2015Peanut Butter is a chaotic listen, powerful in parts and fragile in others, and often both at the same time. No matter where it goes, it's always running away from itself.
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Jun 8, 2015The music is bold, intelligent, and quirky--maybe a little too quirky, but that’s up for debate. If Peanut Butter has a fault, it’s too much consistency.
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May 22, 2015Peanut Butter is one of the thousands of daring, whimsical, uneven results already here and still yet to be created from it.
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May 21, 2015Peanut Butter is far more self-aware, and that leads to music with greater resonance and variety.
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May 19, 2015"There Is No Function Stacy," just one of the gems on Joanna Gruesome's fantastic racket of a second album.
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Under The RadarApr 30, 2015Peanut Butter manages to double down on Weird Sister's considerable volume of bitter pills and sugar-encrusted euphoria. [Apr-May 2015, p.83]