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Q MagazineJun 20, 2012This is the work of a band who are beginning to realise they don't always need to bark so loudly to be heard. [Jun 2012, p.103]
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Jun 4, 2012If you're over alt-rock, then Brazen Bull is going to do little to bring you around. But if you need a new guitar rock record, one that you can headbang to without irony, then the Cribs have delivered.
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MagnetMay 30, 2012The band's twee-ish melodies are still firmly in place, and the album has its softer acoustic moments - but the big slabs of rock all over In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull help give it a fantastic heft. [No.87 p.56]
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May 29, 2012Like everything else the Cribs have done, In the Belly of the Brazen Bull is a relatively easy album to like, with sharp melodies and catchy hooks. It's just held back by a feeling of indecision that permeates tracks whose parts seem to want to go in conflicting directions.
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May 16, 2012The balance of the record takes some patience before the well-crafted songwriting emerges from beneath a haze of disheveled nonchalance and overdriven feedback.
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May 14, 2012Raw but accomplished, tuneful yet noisy, on In the Belly of the Brazen Bull the Cribs are more comfortable with their contradictions than ever.
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May 14, 2012The indie scrappers' fifth album is as cocky, defiant and shouty as earlier efforts.
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May 10, 2012The trio's fifth album, In the Belly of the Brazen Bull, fuses the opposing dichotomies, offering heavy noise and bravado alongside emotional vulnerability to satisfy anyone on the rock and roll spectrum.
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May 8, 2012It still defiantly goes against the grain, but also explodes with immediate, attention-grabbing riffs.
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May 7, 2012If guitar-based music is still your source of shameless pop, you'll probably enjoy In the Belly more than most records that actually aspire for art.
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May 7, 2012Back to their scrappy, atonal, lo-fi sound of the band's early days it mightn't be, 'In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull' is still a good album which sees The Cribs exploring new sounds and old – stumbling upon some truly excellent songs in the process.
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May 4, 2012Overall, In The Belly Of A Brazen Bull is an impressive fifth album from the trio, one that contains elements of their earlier work, while also demonstrating the Jarmans' intention not to be constrained by one particular sound.
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May 4, 2012This is their best yet and possibly the best of the year.
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May 4, 2012In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull is honest, sweaty and delirious.... Their most exciting album yet.
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UncutMay 2, 2012An occasionally excellent but disjointed album. [Jun 2012, p.71]
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May 2, 2012Tunes are plentiful, but competing with angularity and dissonance to establish a prevailing mood.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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Negative: 1 out of 13
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