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Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 8 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. Uncut
    Mar 29, 2013
    70
    "FBI" sounds like a comatose disco track being sung in a toilet, but the default position is a weirdly bluesy take on Krautrock. [May 2013, p.75]
  2. Mar 21, 2013
    70
    The Brooklyn trio’s fourth finds itself cozy in the vein of its predecessor, Hazed Dream.
  3. Q Magazine
    Mar 12, 2013
    80
    Fans of early Beck, Spacemen 3 and Galaxie 50 will love it. [Apr 2013, p.109]
  4. Feb 26, 2013
    80
    Ten years into their career, Psychic Ills have tamed themselves, refining into a form, but the result remains a hypnotic set of songs that consistently achieve an introspective and cerebral kind of psychedelia.
  5. Feb 22, 2013
    78
    One Track Mind aims for the feel of a great dusty road-trip album, and only through its staggering consistency does it slightly fall short of such heights. But when it hits its highs, as if often does, the collection is a transcendent experience.
  6. Feb 19, 2013
    70
    It's as if the Brian Jonestown Massacre hired J Mascis to write its material, solid songcraft disguised as stoned slack.
  7. Feb 19, 2013
    80
    These songs stick in your head in a way that 15-minute guitar jams never do, while still maintaining a bit of hoary mystery at their core.
  8. Feb 19, 2013
    70
    The washy blend of acoustic dirges, blown-out guitar tones, and lonely psychedelic character sketches solidify into an increasingly accessible sound from this once ungrounded act, without losing any of the group's character or inspiration.
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  1. Mar 12, 2013
    6
    Repetition, repetition, repetition' is a phrase Mark E. Smith used to describe The Fall’s music once. The Fall used it to great effect inRepetition, repetition, repetition' is a phrase Mark E. Smith used to describe The Fall’s music once. The Fall used it to great effect in hammering home post-punk scattery riffs, and as is described in Simon Reynolds' excellent book on post-punk, ‘raw music with weird vocals on top'. This was a reaction to all the ‘fancy music’ of the time i.e prog rock. Read more at http://www.therealmusic.net/one-track-mind-2013 Full Review »