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May 25, 2017Everything here is on point; every single element is executed with a stupefying mastery. Soaring strings, luxurious French horn, jangled distortion and purgative, unhinged vocals; all these things fuse together with glorious consequences. Utterly exceptional.
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May 11, 2017Thin Black Duke should be regarded as a genuinely innovative and exciting piece of art.
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Jun 7, 2017By rights no group should be peaking after 30 years of making music together, yet that is the situation in which Oxbow find themselves. Will they ever transcend Thin Black Duke? Such are the ideas and attention to detail on this record, only a fool would bet against them.
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May 11, 2017The Thin Black Duke is a concentrated work of beauty and malevolence that will go toe-to-toe with any other rock record released this year, and likely beyond. Oxbow can take twice as many years to make their next record, as long as it results in something this magnificent.
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May 11, 2017Ultimately, Oxbow's seventh full-length is an incredible, cinematic experience which is at once rewarding and terrifying.
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The WireAug 8, 2017The record is a meditation on masculinity, both lyrically and musically. But it is a sombre, barely lustful masculinity that growls and shrieks and howls and tells stories here. [May 2017, p.52]
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Jul 6, 2017The Thin Black Duke isn’t their finest album--for my money, that’d have to be 1995’s Steve Albini-produced Let Me Be A Woman--but it’s still one of the most thrilling, galvanising records I’ve heard in recent months.
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MojoMay 23, 2017This is bruised, bruising music, intellectually satisfying, animalistic. [Jul 2017, p.91]
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May 11, 2017It may not be their definitive show of force, but it’s a dazzling spectacle nonetheless.
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