• Record Label: 4AD
  • Release Date: Sep 23, 2016
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
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  1. Q Magazine
    Sep 23, 2016
    60
    It veers back to the more melancholy, washed-out experimentalism of their first records, while occasionally seeking to beak new territory. [Nov 2016, p.111]
  2. Uncut
    Sep 21, 2016
    60
    Carson Cox's over-emotive delivery and a bombastic arrangement tip the album's power-ballad finale, "I Will Not Sleep Here," into Night Ranger Territory. Thankfully, the trio is more careful about its point of reference elsewhere. [Oct 2016, p.35]
  3. Mar 15, 2017
    50
    While closer "My Dream Is Yours" picks up the pace, the album pulses inward and outward, meditative, trapped in one place.
  4. Sep 23, 2016
    50
    The band have retreated back to their pre-4AD line-up and reined in the overtly pop instincts of After the End, instead content to needle at a single idea in the hope of coaxing something memorable.
  5. Sep 22, 2016
    40
    It starts strong: the aforementioned song is has the melancholic chaos of the Smiths’ at their stormiest, but what follows is less direct and full of dirge.

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