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Mar 6, 2012Some of the better songs lack that adhesive zeitgeist quality that used to be the group's stock-in-trade. But at its best, there's enough variety and invention to recall The Beatles, sometimes directly. [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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Mar 6, 2012Gimmicks aside, any version of TFIM with a core of "Little Shocks", "Start with Nothing", "When all is Quiet", "Man on Mars" and "Heard it Break" won't go far wrong. [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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UncutMar 6, 2012It all sounds like a band working out who they are. [Sep 2011, p.88] [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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Alternative PressMar 2, 2012A set track list and a few new tunes....[creates] a more well-rounded picture of the band than last year's smorgasbord. [Apr 2012, p.92]
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Under The RadarMar 20, 2012Alternately suffers and benefits from "too many cooks" syndrome. [March 2012, p.77]
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Mar 2, 2012The Brit Award winners have suddenly gone all serious, eschewing their trademark singalong choruses and reining in the quirkiness that briefly made them one of Britain's biggest guitar bands, in favor of a more downbeat and slightly psychedelic sound that may be less annoyingly infectious but is also ultimately less fun.
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Mar 6, 2012Two songs aren't enough to prop up this Revolution.
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Mar 6, 2012These lads from Leeds clearly realize their business model needs tweaking, though it's their songbook that benefit most from an about-face. [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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Mar 6, 2012Their once-ebullient anthems have been replaced by a collection of mid-tempo, uninspiringly ponderous tracks.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 19
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Mixed: 10 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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