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78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Mojo
    Nov 21, 2024
    80
    It’s not all dreamy-headed stuff – Relief, for one, achieves rocky lift-off – but for the most part The Good Kind Tom Doyle sustains a compellingly airy atmosphere throughout. [Jan 2024, p.83]
  2. Record Collector
    Nov 8, 2024
    80
    Community and self-realisation win out on Our Girl's sublime second album. [Dec 2024, p.108]
  3. Nov 8, 2024
    80
    ‘The Good Kind’ is full of dynamism and energy with pounding riffs and basslines. The trio are clearly revelling working together again on their sophomore LP, delivering on what fans might expect and showing the role each member plays.
  4. If it’s less direct than the trio’s 2018 debut, ‘Stranger Today’, it makes up for it with a quietly adventurous textural approach. This album wears its nuances confidently while executing incremental shifts in tone and pacing with precision and care.
  5. Nov 12, 2024
    70
    Some of the tracks, especially towards the end, don’t have quite the immediacy of the earlier songs. .... That’s a minor quibble though – at its best, The Good Kind is proof positive that The Big Moon have actually had two excellent songwriters in their ranks for some time.
  6. Nov 12, 2024
    70
    ‘The Good Kind’ is a slow burner, but a rewarding one.
  7. Nov 8, 2024
    70
    The group's reflective take on grunge- and shoegaze-flavored indie rock is still in play -- such as on the shimmery surfaces of "What You Told Me," the churning distortion of "Something Exciting," and the echoey delay of the bittersweet title track -- but with a more polished net sound resulting from sessions produced by bandleader Soph Nathan, her Big Moon bandmate Fern Ford, and none other than longtime PJ Harvey associate John Parish.

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