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At BrooklynVegan, Bill Pearis chose this for Album of the Week, stating that Nowhere to Go but Up "finds the band wildly ambitious and totally up to the challenge" and shows that the band has yet to peak [6] and it was also shortlisted for one of the best albums of November 2023. [7]
Bill Pearis of BrooklynVegan called the music on Vertigo unlike the band's previous releases, being their "most expansive, subtle and varied record yet and a bit of a swerve from 2019's flashy knockout Laughing Matter". [5]
Bill Pearis of BrooklynVegan attended the live show on this album and calls this release "a delight and a document of their continued love and acknowledgement of their biggest inspiration". [1]
[5] BrooklynVegan ' s Bill Pearis called the song "gorgeous". [6] Pitchfork chose the song as the best new track of the week, with their writer Allison Hussey saying "Over a soft bed of piano and percussion, Natalie Mering makes a blunt observation about the human condition", highlighting the lyrics "We've all become strangers/Even to ourselves ...
Bill Pearis of BrooklynVegan named this the indie album of the week for having "ultra-catchy, danceable songs" and speculating that it would be a top 10 personal favorite for the year. [2]
A feature from BrooklynVegan investigating the band's influences by Bill Pearis characterizes this album as made up of "thrilling two-minute guitar earworms that mash together a few different simpatico genres: punk, post punk, power-pop and British folk". [5]
BrooklynVegan and The Irish Mail on Sunday each named Bauhaus Staircase their "Album of the Week", [27] [28] with the former's Bill Pearis calling it "one of [OMD's] best, certainly their most engaging, dialed-in record since 1984's Junk Culture." Pearis added that the album "pulls off that extremely tricky maneuver of going forward while ...
Upon the album's release, Bill Pearis of BrooklynVegan called this "yet another stunner" from the group that is "a joyous rumination on faith". [11] Writing for Radio New Zealand , Tony Stamp noted the religious themes and uplifting lyrics in the music and responded to the band's mystique by summing up, "everything on record is so substantive ...