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"Social Studies is my new favorite band. Granted, I have a new favorite band every few days or so. But when you consider the amount of new music that I have to listen to each week, it's a big deal when any band, particularly a local one, manages to end up on top of the huge stack. I'm a little behind, I must admit. Since its late-fall release, the band's debut EP, "This Is the World's Biggest Hammer," has earned Social Studies its share of well-deserved ink in the local weeklies. Even so, I feel compelled to add my two cents to the growing pile of critical praise. So here goes: Social Studies is indie-rock perfection. There, I said it.
Bill Picture, San Francisco Chronicle ,2007
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"On their debut EP, This Is the World's Biggest Hammer, San Francisco's Social Studies excel in ardent electropunk and get high marks for their cheerful blend of Casiotone-charged melodies and stripped-down tempos...the quartet knows how to rock a dance floor by playfully weaving a nostalgic arcade hook between flushed bursts of guitar and disco drums...they'll likely be graduating to pop stardom in no time." - San Francisco Bay Guardian ,2007
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"Extremely talented and relentlessly inventive songwriters, whether it's trumpet accompaniment or four-part..chant-like harmony, Social Studies songs often go in unexpected, and wonderful directions...Social Studies definitely finished their set with more fans than when they began." - The Deli Magazine ,2006
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"On Social Studies' all-too-short debut EP, this funky foursome humanizes the electro-clash keyboards and vocals of Ladytron and mixes it with the dark exuberance of Arcade Fire. Natalia's bouncy vocals, often accompanied by the enthusiastic chants and shouts of bandmates, are the most central element to Social Studies' sound. But the funky Casio-tone keyboards and surf-rock arpeggios of their bass play a prominent role in keeping this album on bi-hourly iTunes repeat. Befitting their studious name, their lyrics are often rooted in academia, from the folky and stripped-down "Cardioid", a break-up song told entirely through math-speak to their name-dropping "Theme Song", a series of shout-outs to the great figures of high school text books. If social studies had always been this much fun, I'm sure we'd all be history majors." - Pacific Noise , 2006
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"Social Studies's singer has one of the best voices I've heard in a long, long time. It's the type of voice where you develop a crush on the singer...Nearly all of the songs were quite poppy and very danceable, with keyboards and the occasional trumpet accentuating the scenario...They are a young band, but certainly one worth keeping an eye out for." - Playing in Fog , 2006
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