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Jan 20, 2015A bizarre little record, Music And Words was seemingly kicked off in 2007. With a seven-year gestation, it would be nigh on impossible to maintain a full sense of coherency, but the twin artists just about manage it.
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MojoDec 17, 2014It doesn't all gel, but the hits-to-duds ratio is high. [Jan 2015, p.94]
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Dec 15, 2014The album works because the two men, both fortysomething and either born Scottish (Middleton) or Glasgow School of Art-educated (Shrigley), share a puerile, misanthropic simpatico and a rinky-dink, borderline outsider approach to their art, in which social niceties are frequently torched.
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Dec 9, 2014Shrigley’s work is not for everyone, and Middleton has only a cult following; while Words And Music won’t change either of those facts, the prospect of someone stumbling across this record by mistake makes it more than a worthwhile endeavour.
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Dec 9, 2014Turner prize-nominee Shrigley’s misanthropic worldview-- murderous cavemen, sadistic houseguests and monkeys eating their offspring are among the topics covered--is present and correct, although not everything here benefits from the surreal linguistic twists of his solo work. When he does catch you off guard, it’s splendid stuff.
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UncutDec 9, 2014An amusing curio, although you're unlikely to listen to it more than once. [Jan 2015, p.75]
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Q MagazineDec 16, 2014Shrigley's humour quickly suffers from the law of diminishing returns; once the initial shock has dissipated, it fails to stand up to repeated listening. [Jan 2015, p.128]