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75

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  • Summary: The latest release for the British noise rock band is an album of mixes of songs from Free Reign by producer Daniel Lopatin.
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  1. Aug 9, 2013
    80
    Free Reign II is precisely the sort of risky, rejuvenating album Clinic needed at this point in their career, one that audaciously upends the perception that this band just releases the same album over and over.
  2. Aug 9, 2013
    80
    Freed by Lopatin from self-imposed sonic limitations, the tracks that last year seemed a little too ice cool, a little too glacial, soar and explore hitherto ignored depths.
  3. Aug 9, 2013
    70
    Free Reign II improves upon its predecessor and offers a welcome glance into the usually opaque process of assembling an album.
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    Aug 12, 2013
    70
    A band that long ago perfected their sound, such collaborations rather suit them. [Apr 2013, p.68]
  5. Aug 9, 2013
    67
    The result's an oddly illuminating listen, perhaps their most austere, pushing Clinic's more off-the-wall elements to the fore--as if the band's fun-house psych mirror got turned on itself.
  6. Aug 9, 2013
    60
    The whole thing would have sufficed as a bonus disc rather than the standalone album it is.
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