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Whatever Comes Our Way

The Deadly Syndrome

2012

Whatever Comes Our Way

Release Date:  2012

By Pitchfork

Reviewed August 2, 2012

"Whatever Comes Our Way" is the first single from All In Time, the self-released third LP from Los Angeles indie rockers the Deadly Syndrome (out August 7). This open-hearted, tuneful electro-acoustic strummer sounds like a welcome resolution between the emotional poles set up on their previous two albums, the exuberant, synth-spiked The Ortolan and 2010's dejected but affecting Nolens Volens. There was a lot of this sort of thing populating L.A. in the middle of the past decade-- some of it was called "blog rock," many of its practitioners considered the next big thing, and pretty much all of it dull as hell-- but the Deadly Syndrome proudly and rightfully sound like the last band standing.

8:00 PM · Aug 2, 2012