"On Ex Cops' sophomore full-length album, 2014's Daggers, the duo of vocalist/instrumentalist Brian Harding and vocalist Amalie Bruun shade their '80s and '90s-influenced rock pastiche to an even finer, more subtle hue. As with the group's 2013 debut, True Hallucinations, Daggers showcases all of their very specific influences, from fuzz guitar-laden noise rock to dreamy shoegaze to buoyant and danceable new wave pop. However, rather than coming off as an endless checklist of name-the-influence, Daggers sounds more like a unified group sound where the influences merely give context to Ex Cops' production choices and melodic nods".