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Portamento

The Drums

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Released: Sep 2011
Label: Frenchkiss Records
Like to wear black eyeliner to the beach? Here's your band. The Drums do a curious (i.e., awesome) combination of post-punk surf music, a sort of Beach Boy facade for a heart that pumps to the sounds of The Cure. Even more pronounced on their sophomore album, this mix of ghostly analog synths, breezy handclaps, ooh ooh's and ringing surf guitar is a foil to frontman Jonathan Pierce's atheistic infatuation with the afterlife and the afterlove. The sunnier fare, at least in melody, bookends Portamento, while the darker stuff ("Searching for Heaven," "Please Don't Leave") seeps in midway.
- Stephanie Benson
The Drums - Portamento 2011-10-06
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    Book of Revelations
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    Days
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    What You Were
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    Money
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    Hard To Love
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    I Don't Know How To Love
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    Searching For Heaven
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    Please Don't Leave
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    If He Likes It Let Him Do It
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    I Need A Doctor
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    In The Cold
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    How It Ended
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