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Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings
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Mixed: 4 out of 23
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Negative: 1 out of 23
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Oct 21, 2022I suppose that this might do it for some, but this is not "rock or even "post-rock", it is largely "post-music". It is bad background plinking thrown behind unrelated odd mutterings. A couple of tracks rise above, just like on the last album.
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Nov 4, 2022Lyrically, Stumpwork triumphs over anything produced by their contemporaries, but that might have been to the detriment of the music, which bravely evades the instrumental vitality of their debut. But it is an album rooted in grief – specifically the grief that comes from losing a loved one – and with that knowledge, Stumpwork suddenly makes a lot more sense.
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Oct 25, 2022With Shaw’s vocals as the pivot, Dowse, Maynard and Buxton flex, weave and dance around her, resulting in a nuanced listen that extends the band way beyond their pigeonhole of “post-punk.” Hard to pinpoint where Dry Cleaning belong now, which can only be a good thing.
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Oct 25, 2022Shaw’s real strength lies not in her surrealism but in the way her best lines reach toward eternal truths about the small ways humans survive, like the arrival of a shoe organizer in the mail distracting her from the dysfunction of late-capitalist rot.