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Jul 5, 2017Every Valley is certainly an important and timely record, but happily it's also an extremely satisfying and moving one. While it may not have the obvious scope of their breakthrough record The Race for Space it has something important to tell us about the times we live in and the hard, heartbreaking lessons we should all be learning from the past.
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Jul 7, 2017Informative and moving, Every Valley doesn’t exist in the traditional space of an album--it’s almost music as journalism, or a musical collage version of This American Life. If nothing else, you won’t hear anything like it this year.
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Q MagazineJul 6, 2017Poignant and powerful. [Aug 2017, p.110]
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Jul 6, 2017The music beautifully captures a sense of awesome industrial power and a crushing sense of loss.
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MojoJun 30, 2017Every Valley is timely and useful. [Aug 2017, p.89]
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UncutJun 30, 2017Every Valley feels far more substantial [than 2015's The Race For Space], as PSB's amorphous brand of prog, motorik and post rock integrates fully with BFI clips and first hand interviews. ... Pathos and fortitude are plentiful. [Aug 2017, p.35]
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Jun 30, 2017The cumulative impact on Mother Of The Village and Take Me Home (featuring the Beaufort Male Choir) is potent: packing robust poignancy, these lullabies for working-class pride deep-mine history with great storytelling skill, sensitivity--and, pointedly, a kick of sustained political relevance.
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Jun 30, 2017Every Valley is lush and symphonic, more interested in expressing the human spirit of the mining communities than aestheticising the conditions in which they toiled.
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Jul 11, 2017Public Service Broadcasting put that political and economic disconnect into sharp relief, placing human lives and industrial mining on a broad spectrum that let both sides be heard.
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Jul 7, 2017In spite of the somewhat dour tone of this album, there’s plenty of musical depth and light to be found throughout.
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Jul 6, 2017Even more so than on The Race for Space, PSB seem less like a gimmicky novelty group and more like a new breed of intelligent, socially conscious pop music.