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Q MagazineApr 6, 2011The View appear to be growing up. Forever, of course, is a very, very, long time. But on this evidence, against all odds, The View look set to run and run. [Apr 2011, p.99]
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Mar 23, 2011Their most coherent, alive and plain best album yet.
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Dec 21, 2011It's not particularly big or, indeed, clever, but it's a return to form that might just stop the rot, even if it's unlikely to reverse their fortunes dramatically.
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Mar 23, 2011Bread And Circuses isn't bad enough to be s death knell, but neither is it good enough to be their commercial rebirth.
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Mar 23, 2011For Bread and Circuses, Morris has been replaced by Youth, whose first job was to ban alcohol from the studio. For the most part, it seems to have helped.
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MojoApr 6, 2011The overall effect is like being trapped in a lift with McFly on a sugar-rush. [Apr 2011, p.98]
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UncutMar 29, 2011The View's handicap is the sheer lumpen ordinariness of their songwriting. [Apr 2011, p.100]
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 1 out of 4
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