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7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: The second full-length release for the Los Angeles duo of Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker was recorded and mixed by Drew Fischer.
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123 will you list it off to me? How you're sorry you feel weird in a jubilation dream And you're sorry about the load Feeling sorry about the... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. May 11, 2017
    100
    Ardently absorb all that there is to feel in this LP, and expect its lullaby-like melodies to draw from you that which is so deeply buried you don’t even know it exists.
  2. May 11, 2017
    83
    While the arrangements show collaboration, the lyrics sound like the work of the lonely mind. Powerplant is full of the solo enterprise of watching.
  3. May 12, 2017
    83
    Their sophomore LP Powerplant sounds a little more like everyone else, echoing second-wave emo sourness (“Your Heart”), Britpop jangle (“She Goes By”), and classic alt-rock loud-quiet-loudness throughout. But Tucker and Tividad are wise enough not to abandon what makes them distinct--that unsettling magic that exists between them when they sing, the harmonic equivalent of The Shining’s Grady twins.
  4. May 11, 2017
    80
    It's singular, creative work with pure intent; that makes Girlpool an important band, and it makes Powerplant an authentic, beautiful, effective record.
  5. May 12, 2017
    75
    Girlpool base their songwriting around tenderness, vulnerability, and a complete disinterest in pretending not to embrace those things, and Powerplant finds them at their most transparent.
  6. May 12, 2017
    70
    It’s a lot to take in, especially from a band formerly so minimalistic, but musically, it holds together.
  7. May 12, 2017
    60
    The beefing up of Girlpool’s sound on Powerplant works marvellously in parts, but at points serves to dilute the individuality the pair presented on their debut.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1