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UncutAug 30, 2012The songs are assured, strident and catchy, but often fairly cringeworthy too. [Sep 2012, p.73]
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Q MagazineAug 29, 2012Four may be too diffuse and rough around the edges to qualify as a knockout comeback but it shows a band relocating their purpose and promise by changing their habits. [Sep 2012, p.96]
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MojoAug 29, 2012Ultimately Four is an album of two 9uneven) sides). [Sep 2012, p.89]
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Aug 29, 2012[Four] sees them rediscovering guitars with a vengeance – and many tracks here come with the sort of epic quality that has helped Muse filled arenas.
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Aug 28, 2012They return to remind us that there's still one side of dance rock they haven't tried: rock. On Four, Bloc Party turn up their amps and tune down their guitars.
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Aug 28, 2012As defiant as this gang of four wants to be, they can't help but humbly return to their strengths.
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Aug 28, 2012Bloc Party's touchstones remain firmly rooted in their indie upbringing.
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Aug 28, 2012The album is never able to build its momentum as it gets jostled between a fight over noise rock and soft sleeper cells.
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Aug 28, 2012It's ultimately debatable whether or not Four is the "real" Bloc Party, but revisionist history isn't supposed to be a duller version of the real thing.
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Aug 28, 2012Though Four does contain some sweet spots, it's largely an exercise in throwing projectiles at the proverbial wall with the hopes that something, anything, will stick. Four is a vacant display of miscellany.
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Aug 28, 2012Bloc Party once came with something to prove, and the conviction necessary to prove it. Four takes the audience's interest for granted, and refuses to step out of line to draw more interest. So much for a revolution.
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Aug 28, 2012They hit a peak with Team A, a street brawl of limber bass and volatile guitar, but plunge a low every time the pace slackens.
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Aug 28, 2012That Four is laced with some of the band's hands-down strongest work, then, makes its weaker moments and occasional in-your-face insistence all the more grating.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 45 out of 55
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Mixed: 8 out of 55
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Negative: 2 out of 55
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