I, Gemini

AlbumJun 17 / 201610 songs, 48m 5s94%
Art Pop Psychedelic Pop Ambient Pop
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Singular adventures in pop oddness, recorded in a nuclear bunker in the east of England. Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth’s debut has many childlike charms: over-sweetened teenage-witch vocals; liberal use of glockenspiel and recorder; and a low-boredom-threshold flightiness that carries the pair from dimly-lit trip-hop (“Deep Six Textbook”) to sinister folk (“Chocolate Sludge Cake”), and lo-fi rave and hip-hop (“Eat Shiitake Mushrooms”). There’s nothing infantile about their execution though, and they layer sound and ideas into enrapturing melodies with skill and fearlessness.

7.3 / 10

The teenaged duo Let's Eat Grandma explore the nightmarish whimsy of nursery rhymes and folktales with a distinctly English flavor on their chilling and impressive debut.

9 / 10

The best things to come out of Norwich since Alan Partridge have made a contender for the debut album of the year

These two best friends specialise in strangely-built pop, but aside from showing off peculiarities, their debut lacks purpose.

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Let's Eat Grandma's Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth love duality.

6.5 / 10

It's hard to believe Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth are just 17.

9 / 10

That the opening track of ‘I, Gemini’ should be named after a maritime phrase meaning to throw something overboard is decidedly fitting given

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