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MagnetFeb 21, 2014Harrowing electronic soundscapes set the scene like a Cronenberg film with sputtering, stuttering drum machines, droning organs, witchy background coos and Stewart vocals. [No. 106, p.61]
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MojoFeb 11, 2014Musically, Stewart's ambition to marry first-album Suicide with Einsturzende Neubauten and latter-day Scott Walker has been realised with aplomb. [Mar 2014, p.95]
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Feb 7, 2014Xiu Xiu fans get exactly what they want from Angel Guts, while new listeners will either become diehard devotees or be turned off by the lack of originality.
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Feb 5, 2014This is a deliberate Difficult Listen, an Atrocity Exhibition, an Intense Humming Of Evil. If you've always been a Stewart-skeptic, there's a good chance you'll dismiss this as Super Hans conjuring a powerful sense of dread; if not, it's likely to genuinely unsettle.
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Feb 3, 2014Throughout, as ever, it’s Stewart’s voice that grounds the music in something recognizably human, his inexhaustibly elastic voice capable of so much but never able to be anything less than beautiful.
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Feb 3, 2014Angel Guts: Red Classroom is the typical blend of passion, pain and awkwardness which makes Xiu Xiu what they are. Fearless, demanding, relentlessly subversive.
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May 5, 2014As intense and as self-questioning as ever, Angel Guts: Red Classroom is the sound of an artist getting back to his best.
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Feb 13, 2014It is shocking, it's exciting and it doesn't attempt to give any easy answers or clues as to its real intentions.
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Feb 3, 2014With Angel Guts Stewart once again manages to dig his nails into the grubby under layer, not returning with any transgressed beauty but instead stark honesty and brutal truth. You may want to turn away, but you might not be able to.
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Apr 1, 2014Angel Guts: Red Classroom proves Xiu Xiu can still make impressively intimidating music--even if their real strengths arguably lie elsewhere.
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Feb 3, 2014Moments of its 44 minutes are as hard to stomach as anything Xiu Xiu are ever likely to record.
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Feb 3, 2014Angel Guts: Red Classroom is his third album in under a year, and superficially it resembles many of Xiu Xiu’s others by draping wracked and fragile vocals over obtuse electronics and analogue atonality.
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Feb 5, 2014Angel Guts is yet another strong, occasionally frustrating record restrained by Stewart’s consistency.
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Feb 28, 2014With this latest (and perhaps last) album, it’s still true to say that Xiu Xiu haven’t delivered a wholly complete work, but then it probably wouldn’t be a Xiu Xiu record if it was.
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Q MagazineFeb 14, 2014They too often tip into adolescent parent-scaring anguish. [Mar 2014, p.121]
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Feb 3, 2014An album trying to survive under the harshest conditions, Angel Guts: Red Classroom is a properly thrilling listen.
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Feb 3, 2014Angel Guts is yet another example that the world needs a guy like Jamie Stewart treating music the way Jamie Stewart does: painfully, harshly, intuitively, and with psychotic aplomb.
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UncutFeb 3, 2014Angel Guts: Red Classroom is by turns darkly unsettling and unintentionally funny. [Mar 2014, p.85]
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Feb 6, 2014This album seems determined to take all the good things Stewart and co. are capable of and tossing them right out the window.
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Feb 6, 2014The songs that are okay sound derivative; the songs that sound new are oozing messes that rough up everything that’s ever made Xiu Xiu work.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 18
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Mixed: 5 out of 18
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Negative: 1 out of 18
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