Sub-Lingual Tablet
by The Fall
User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
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  1. JBBu
    Jun 19, 2015
    10
    This is so far the best album of the year - in a year of safe and predictable releases. It is truley amazing that The Faĺl can keep putting out recordings of such high standards.
  2. mrtew
    Jun 17, 2015
    9
    Really addictive and essential when you need an album to come back to when you start to suspect the rest of the world has gone pop. After untold decades they never will if they haven't by now. I don't know if this album is really better than the many dozens before it but it's definitely fresher and more compelling than I remember most of them being. Ten thousand fall fans can't beReally addictive and essential when you need an album to come back to when you start to suspect the rest of the world has gone pop. After untold decades they never will if they haven't by now. I don't know if this album is really better than the many dozens before it but it's definitely fresher and more compelling than I remember most of them being. Ten thousand fall fans can't be wrong! Definitely the place to start if you're not already one of us.… Expand

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Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Dusted Magazine
    Jul 14, 2015
    80
    If you listen to this album a lot, you may spend the first two or three times through snorting at odd phrases, recoiling from the venom and viscosity in Smith’s vocal delivery, but as you go, you begin to pick up the ferocity of the grooves underneath. No one else balances articulate, convincing hallucination with freight train propulsion like the Fall does, and this album, they take it further towards the edge than before.
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  2. PopMatters
    Jun 22, 2015
    60
    There’s nothing wrong with anything on Tablet, simply that Smith has been doing the same thing for so long that one starts to wonder what he might be able to do if he set his sights a little higher.
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  3. AllMusic
    Jun 9, 2015
    80
    A satisfying land where they receive all the drive, the snarl, and tribal drums they require, while late album highlights "Quit iPhone" and "Fibre Book Troll" (which is really "Facebook Troll") are screaming examples of the band's rockabilly-punk in overdrive.
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