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- Summary: Willem Smit collaborated with Casper van der Lans on the second full-length release from his music project, Personal Trainer.
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- Record Label: Bella Union
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Aug 16, 2024When “Upper Ferntree Gully” takes off, it’s to the sort of easy midtempo riffs that once made Billy Corgan listenable, with a soupçon of Mascis noise thrown in for good measure as Smit builds an intergenerational metaphor from a kangaroo pouch. It sets the scene for an album of sharp twists that owes its success to the personality and wit of Smit’s omnivore genre jigsawing.
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UncutAug 2, 2024Makes good on the promise of 2022's Big Love Blanket by finetuning their melodic instincts without sacrificing the anything-goes chaos that makes them such a thrilling proposition. [Sep 2024, p.37]
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Classic Rock MagazineAug 2, 2024Always surprising, entirely entrancing indie-rock ingenuity. [Aug 2024, p.77]
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Aug 2, 2024Like their fellow musical experimentalists Black Country, New Road, Personal Trainer may not always hit the mark, but even their failures are more interesting than 95% of their contemporaries.
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MojoAug 2, 2024It's impressive stuff, full of craft and invention, but there are moments when there could be more mellow - and a touch less pyrotechnic indie-rock Roman candle. [Sep 2024, p.91]
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Aug 8, 2024Smit’s absolute adoration for slick, artful pop music is evident in every note of its too-short runtime, which bristles with inspiration and crackles with enthusiasm the entire time.