Lady from Shanghai - Pere Ubu
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76 out of 100

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5.2 out of 10

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  • Summary: The 15th studio release for the Cleveland post-punk group led by David Thomas is the band's idea of dance music.

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  1. Positive: 18 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 23
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  1. Blurt Magazine
    Jan 17, 2013
    100
    The new album's a stunning return to, and expansion from, seminal Ubu form.
  2. Q Magazine
    Jan 24, 2013
    80
    Lady From Shanghai laughs in the face of chart pop, but the listener can't help cackling along. [Feb 2013, p.108]
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  3. Magnet
    Feb 12, 2013
    80
    Sure, it's a mess. But it's a brilliant, manically theatrical mess, true to Welles' self-destructive spirit. [No. 95, p.57]
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  4. No Ripcord
    Feb 19, 2013
    60
    It’s nowhere near as annoying, despite my physically manifest aversion to it, but it definitely is not trying to please you, or make you comfortable, or even happy in any way.

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