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Feb 7, 2020What we’ve got now is a world full of millennials that have grown up to make art about these injustices. HMLTD have done just that, focusing their trials and tribulations through a magnifying glass to burn us mere ants. And oh, how I love a bit of self-immolation.
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Feb 5, 2020Committed to a style and substance that simultaneously looks to the past and future, the five-piece soundtrack their role as esoteric prophets of doom with a sonic credo that proves genuinely idiosyncratic in the current climate – sharp, wit-filled and uninhibited stuff.
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Feb 18, 2020Despite the high barrier to entry, West of Eden crowns HMLTD as one of few bands with a serious claim to artistic vision and sonic uniqueness.
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Feb 7, 2020They have a default setting, which is a kind of arena goth (Death Drive is Suicide at stadium scale). But at its best, West of Eden is thrilling and unsettling.
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Feb 6, 2020With ‘West Of Eden’ HMLTD have fought off the suffocating grip of overhype to deliver a debut album that is a cut above the rest, even if it is a little overdue.
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MojoFeb 5, 2020Packs intelligence, colour and melody. [Mar 2020, p.93]
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UncutFeb 5, 2020As a whole, West of Eden is extravagant and ridiculous, but it embraces its own erraticism. [Mar 2020, p.29]
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Feb 10, 2020West of Eden is a flawed album, a patchy album, and an album with some really bad lyrics in it. But nonetheless a very fun record. It might lose its magic quickly, as most of the thrill comes from the band’s willingness to skip from genre to genre, but every so often you can forget the flaws and get lost in the many worlds it tries to create.
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Q MagazineFeb 5, 2020Their debut's wilful eccentricity is mostly unconvincing. [Mar 2020, p.119]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 31
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Mixed: 1 out of 31
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Negative: 2 out of 31
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Feb 10, 2020
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Apr 12, 2023Amazing album. Eclectic, exciting and very well produced. Sometimes it feels overacted but I think that it's part of the artist's theatricality.
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Jan 6, 2021