Clash Music's Scores
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For 3,858 reviews, this publication has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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38% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.3 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 74
Highest review score: | Dead Man's Pop [Box Set] | |
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Lowest review score: | Wake Up! |
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Positive: 3,229 out of 3858
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Mixed: 600 out of 3858
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Negative: 29 out of 3858
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Cinematic splashes with honest lyricism feature in the twelve-track production and there is one thing this writer can tell about ‘A Fistful Of Peaches. It’s all about escaping the war in the mind, something that helps make Black Honey a band to admire.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 17, 2023
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Packing so much in comes at the risk of a more diluted sound and an album which lacks a strong sense of cohesive unity. This is most apparent in the first two ‘planets’, where the result is a little muddled. When not biting off more than they can chew by integrating three entirely different featured artists within a five track part (see ‘Off Planet Part 1’), the album is a fresh and interesting take on experimental electronica.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 15, 2023
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‘The Good Witch’ is a dazzling little record that is as entertaining to listen to as it sounds like it was for Peters to make.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 29, 2023
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On ‘Sunburn’, the American songwriter sounds the most comfortable he ever has, and as a result this sophomore record carves out his own space in the music world.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 27, 2023
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It duly delivers, comprising a first-rate electro set rich with the imagination of songwriter Katie Stelmani.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 13, 2013
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Carefully structured, ‘MAN MADE’ is able to caress the spartan sonics of ‘Away We Go’, for example, before plunging into the revelatory rock guitar of ‘Sinner’. In bringing such diversity together, the central creator is able to span opposites, and build bridges that perfectly amplify her touching lyricism.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 4, 2021
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Consistent ruggedness, the sort that brings wicked grins of appreciation, shows a toughening up for new employers.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 20, 2011
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At times Wolves' polished, pop-tinged punk sounds more like a proffered Pepsi can than a clenched Molotov cocktail, but it is still punk to its bones in a time when the label tends to be skin-deep.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 13, 2017
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Tribal chanting and desert parties meet drum machines and electrifying guitar riffs in an album that is consistently inventive, mesmerising and incredibly danceable.- Clash Music
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Sadly much of the rest of Music Complete is by-the-numbers New Order, and revisionary as opposed to revolutionary.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 28, 2015
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A strange, lovely and at times genuinely unnerving album that feels like a deep-dive into the subconscious of these hauntology pioneers.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 28, 2017
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If that's not your bag, then this won't convert you, but if intrigue you have; then check it out.- Clash Music
- Posted May 10, 2011
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- Posted Sep 15, 2015
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As You As You Were already feels like a festival anthem in waiting. Stunningly good music.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 22, 2012
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The good tracks on 'Body Talk' are of such a high quality that it definitely makes it worthwhile to check this album out but you are soon left with a feeling that the subsequent releases in this series will cobble together one amazing album and one really bad one.- Clash Music
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All in all, its a beautiful sign of the times - psychedelic and indie focused in melody, with poignant and important lyrics giving a pulse to an otherwise-relaxed-sounding project.- Clash Music
- Posted May 5, 2022
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A dazzlingly creative effort, it might well be SHOPPING’s most complete, concise, and fascinating release yet.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 16, 2018
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- Posted Dec 13, 2016
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Since that reboot 12 years ago, they don’t really know what they want to be. So they try all things, and only succeed at some.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 12, 2015
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There are some surprising hooks amongst predominantly ugly arrangements, and its ambition is admirable, but Plowing… proves woefully lacking in coherency, and fails as its makers’ next evolution.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 15, 2014
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Not so much Teenage Fanclub as 'Loveless'-era MBV meets classic Cure at their poppiest.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 29, 2011
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Fresh Air is confidently obtuse in that it expertly harnesses the power in Sagar’s slightly off-kilter and out-of-tune instrumentation.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 6, 2017
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The lush arrangements highlight his sophistication as a songwriter--‘Impossible’ comes on like ABBA gone synthwave--if sometimes verging towards the saccharine with repeated exposure. Yet this latest collection finds C Duncan in rude health.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 28, 2019
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Frequently unclassifiable, and never dull, ‘Again’ is a stop-sign on his perpetual onward journey.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 3, 2023
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- Posted Jun 23, 2014
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Content Nausea sees the band’s Andrew Savage and Austin Brown bashing out a short, pithy not-quite-an-LP while their fellow bandmates variously become parents and math graduates.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 10, 2014
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'PREY//IV' is not simply music to listen to: it’s an attempt to communicate genuine pain in ways that simply aren’t possible through a written statement posted online. Little surprise, then, that the lyrics go for the jugular on occasion (“You taste like rotten meat”; “Are you picturing my insides outside of me?”). However, they’re at their most effective when their visceral imagery gives way to narratives of coercion and control, as it does on 'FAIR GAME'- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 17, 2022
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After sinking your claws into this offering from PAWS one thing will become certain, their ramshackle approach to delivering scuzzy punk rock drenched in delicious distortion is enough to make anyone short of breath.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 30, 2016
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Keys fails to emulate these peers and instead only succeeds in certain apt production choices and the partial development of her earlier sound. She becomes yet another voice unable to deliver its message.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 16, 2016
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Impulsive, instinctive and infectious, the eccentric and emotional Ørsted walks an enchanting tightrope.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 21, 2014
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Singers aside, we have those subtle harmonies drenching every song, sparkles of synth, strings and flute, and those sunrise drums lifting everything. It’s utterly gorgeous and the best bits of Midlake still shine through.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 12, 2017
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Myriad magical traditions and exemplary musicianship are boiled up in a big vat, like a transcendental potion.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 18, 2014
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- Posted Jul 13, 2015
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Although a rather formidable theme, NNAMDÏ delivers his most succinct and capital P pop album yet.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 28, 2022
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My Morning Jacket should be celebrated as a band that tirelessly deliver value for money--there's enough in here to keep you listening for months on end, and loving every minute of it.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 6, 2011
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Pony isn’t perfect, but more importantly it is never boring. Even in the slight missteps, there is something to be admired. ... It is easily one of the most interesting and exciting pop records of the year.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 24, 2019
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- Posted Jun 20, 2011
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It's charming in every way, but still rooted in the pop folk that brought Beth to us in the first place.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 11, 2012
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It’s an evocative rush of a listen - if Watson insists on making yet more music outside of his day job, we’re glad it’s as fun as this.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 17, 2020
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A brilliant debut that positions her as one of the brightest young songwriters operating in this age of internet bred pop stars.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 5, 2019
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Towards the end of the album, tracks threaten to meld into each other, making for one big visceral haze of love-lamenting. But beat seekers should find their bag on dynamic tracks like ‘Florida!!!’, a thumping, bewitching collaboration with Florence + The Machine, ‘Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?,’ and triumphantly-erupting, more optimistic ‘I Can Do It With A Broken Heart.’- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 19, 2024
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Fortunately, these successes do not overwhelm 1000 Forms Of Fear, with tracks such as ‘Big Girls Cry’ and ‘Fire Meet Gasoline’ more than matching the output of her past clients in terms of captivating, powerful pop.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 24, 2014
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For Smith, though, she doesn’t need loud dynamics in order to submerge the listener; and for much of her latest record the command of her machines is such that the mind is easily able to wander, and forget that they’re there at all.- Clash Music
- Posted May 19, 2020
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The lyrical framework in which he operates is fairly supple and improvisatory, though there are some surprisingly tender lines here and there. Structures and voicings are stripped back but viscid synths and odd, glitchy effects whir in the background.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 21, 2019
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- Posted Apr 11, 2013
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The band’s expertly realized fusion of organic and electronic instruments remains, bolstered by their extensive tour diary that’s also seen them open for Underworld.- Clash Music
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His lyrics are blunt yet honest, taking personal demons and harnessing them to stadium-ready anthems like ‘Anxiety’ and ‘Angel Wings’, all the while avoiding self-parody.- Clash Music
- Posted May 2, 2019
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Thunder Follows the Light is an album that if you take on face value is full of delicate vocals and dreamy melodies, but if you start to dig a bit below its ethereal surface you find something that is incredibly rewarding on repeat listens. This is when the album starts to come into its own and slowly starts to take over your life.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 19, 2018
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The best moments remain the songs where the band moves as a unit, conjuring a sense of hope and elation, rather than falling back on tired, shouty punk cliches.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 10, 2011
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‘Who Made The Sunshine?’ feels like a fresh slate for the Buffalo artist. Drawing on the weight of his experience to carve out fresh opportunity, it’s a record that – only at moments, mind you – contains some of his best work.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 7, 2020
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The hype for his newest album, 'The Off-Season', reached astronomical heights. Fortunately for fans, they did not have to wait long, and the North Carolina rapper did not disappoint.- Clash Music
- Posted May 18, 2021
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‘COMING HOME’ competently portrays love as part Afrodisiac, part pulse-racing chase, part languorous and lived-in sensation. ‘COMING HOME’ is also tangential to the live spectacle, and that’s okay.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 9, 2024
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Unfortunately, the resultant package is very cleverly constructed and yet maddeningly dull.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 27, 2012
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Phoenix has been four years in the making, waiting in the wings to see the light. And now that it’s finally here, Phoenix is definitely worth checking out.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 23, 2018
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A young super-group who are growing at a fast pace, their third album is glorious, ambitious and fulfilling, and it can take the band to new places and...loving spaces.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 30, 2020
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We’d be looking at an even better record had it allowed the space required for her often unrecognised jaw-on-the-floor vocals, but as a whole Melanie C has drawn from a whirlwind year to make a jubilant album that understands where she is right now.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 2, 2020
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‘Slugs of Love’ manages to evade repetition and monotony despite their stripped-back demeanour – resulting in a record residing in sensual sophistication and ease.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 7, 2023
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There's nothing here to write home about but it should make a nice stocking filler for Mum.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 29, 2012
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- Posted Apr 5, 2023
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Guaranteed to make you cry sugar-coated tears or vomit Care Bears depending on your tastes.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 24, 2012
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Cinematic in its scope, the album runs like a screenplay with character developments, recurring themes, tragedy and, finally, resolve.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 7, 2016
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- Posted Aug 1, 2014
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It would be hard to find an album to compete with theirs in regards of modernism or creativeness.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 16, 2019
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The whole album somewhat lacks the same energy, punch and pure magic that The Black Keys have.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 16, 2015
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Swift’s vocals are triumphant, soaring, wild throughout--she is a fantastic singer, and 1989 does showcase her ability to attack a track of any style and claim it as her own, even if the ultimate results feel like a compromise had to be found to make the final cut.- Clash Music
- Posted Nov 4, 2014
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Carrier isn't necessarily a victory for versatility or enigma variations, more the sound of Sully helping himself to bass culture's wide open buffet.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 12, 2011
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Overall this is an album to be enjoyed in its entirety and proves a much more rewarding when doing so. Grab a comfy chair, wait for dusk and lose yourself. You won't regret it.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 24, 2015
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The album has immense scale, wonderfully indulgent soundscapes and limitless sing-alongs.- Clash Music
- Posted May 15, 2019
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The end result is a rewardingly eclectic mix, if not slightly discombobulating.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 5, 2019
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A succinct, focussed return, ‘Phantom Birds’ makes a neat soundtrack to the final days of the English summer.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 23, 2020
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On ‘Songbook’ The Lazy Eyes are showing off, offering the full kaleidoscope of their insane talent. It’s an invitation into a dreamy utopia of their own invention - and you’ll want to stay.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 20, 2022
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Delivering what her fans would expect, it seems as though Flo Milli has found her feet and handed over a selection of fun-filled and ultrafeminine tracks before the summer comes to an end.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 25, 2022
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- Posted Aug 18, 2023
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Era Extrana is a collection of brooding, eddying and actually kinda loud indietronica that wears its Joy Division and New Order influences on its (mixing) sleeve and contains enough catchy melody lines to flirt with pop... and take it all the way to second base.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 28, 2011
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Starting with offbeat rhythms and minor key vocals the album is not as accessible as "Has A Good Home" and less adventurous than "He Poos Clouds"--yet there’s something that draws you into Heartland.- Clash Music
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There’s plenty to commend it, but with such high expectations, it’s perhaps inevitable that this album could never live up to them.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 11, 2013
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Whilst your first few visits to the ‘Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino’ may feel alien and unwelcoming, you will gravitate ever closer to its shimmering outer-space treasures with each stay.- Clash Music
- Posted May 11, 2018
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Bunny in its entirety is quintessentially disparate, a fleeting repertoire of the avant, and a keeper of both the nostalgic and the progressive. Matthew Dear is unlike the rest, as he invites us into his cathedral of sounds, and will undoubtedly ‘stick around in the house of your mind’.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 15, 2018
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As a double album, ‘V’ is a hefty commitment and is therefore unlikely to win many new fans for Unknown Mortal Orchestra, but it’s a coherent and mature piece of work which will be worth the wait for this well-established act.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Though moments fall into realms of safety, churning out easy radio-hits, we’re hoping she continues on this venture into more diverse sounds - as those more exciting, genre-fusing tracks are pretty fabulous.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 12, 2022
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There is a ‘fine line’ between plain pop music and good pop music that’s interesting to listen to. On this album, Harry Styles definitely falls into the latter category.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 12, 2019
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With its themes giving the listener the desire to actually pay attention to what being said, rather than just zoning out to the album’s ear-worming melodies, Insecure Men is no doubt one of 2018’s best debuts.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 23, 2018
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Everett has fought his well-documented trails and tribulations tooth and nail, and this gritty but ultimately joyous album stands as testament to that.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 4, 2013
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It can arrest large scale arenas, and Matrixxman's Swiss Army Knife game is indisputable, though it's often used as a plot twist that's not necessarily relatable to the original story.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 9, 2015
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The Union is a mutual display of affection from both sides - Elton and Bernie's nostalgic tales are infused with gospel, rollicking country and rock 'n' roll, while Leon's croaky voice adds southern authenticity.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 26, 2010
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It’s great when I’m listening to it, but nothing really jumps out and lodges itself in my brain - perhaps harshly, it all feels like a puddle of slightly warm water where an ice cube used to be.- Clash Music
- Posted May 10, 2021
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Darling Arithmetic finds O'Brien continuing to fashion his sound in this cherished manner, the tales he spawns both introspective and impressive.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 20, 2015
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Was it worth that wait? That’s open to debate, but it’s definitely not an album you listen to and wish they hadn’t bothered.- Clash Music
- Posted Dec 21, 2017
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González hasn’t changed much since his 2003 debut ‘Veneer’ but his fans won’t be disappointed by his new project and will surely be glad to have new songs after waiting six years.- Clash Music
- Posted Sep 21, 2021
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Snõõper have succeeded in creating an album that celebrates the joy of live music, while not sacrificing any of their energy, originality or fun in the process.- Clash Music
- Posted Jul 19, 2023
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Adele is sincere, poignant and affecting throughout; the emotive 'Someone Like You' closes the album magnificently.- Clash Music
- Posted Jan 27, 2011
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A dazzling mix of shoegaze, lo-fi psychedelia and fuzzy, mid-period Sonic Youth.- Clash Music
- Posted Jun 27, 2012
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A curious state of affairs on the surface, this is no empty exercise in muso accomplishment. Lidell’s voice is a thing of wonder, a match for or indeed bettering many of R‘n’B’s mainstream performers.- Clash Music
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While the playing is never less than exceptional – displaying Mark Knopfler’s assured rhythmic sensibility, and his lyrical lead styles – the arrangements on ‘One Deep River’ can sometimes falter.- Clash Music
- Posted Apr 12, 2024
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Thanks to Black Milk’s production this is their most accomplished album since 1995's ‘Temple Of Boom’.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 16, 2022
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Clark's biggest triumph is in managing to splice his previous influences together in a cohesive and pleasing manner.- Clash Music
- Posted Oct 13, 2015
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It’s a dense work that’ll be discovered thriving equally happily in the niche of teenage bedrooms as in underground cults and a nebulous haze of mushrooming Mixcloud communiqués extending over the horizon.- Clash Music
- Posted Feb 21, 2013
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With a sound centred around a tunable percussion instrument called a hang (think mellow steel drum), skittering jazz drums, saxophone and loops, the quartet, who live Monkees-like in a shared house in East London, serve up a fresh vision of jazz, drawing sounds from across the globe.- Clash Music
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Everything here is gorgeously sung and this woozy, gently uplifting collection of songs is pretty close to perfect.- Clash Music
- Posted Aug 8, 2011
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On occasions it’s a disappointing walk through ‘hardcore by numbers’ routines peppered in clever imagery and breakneck instrumentation.- Clash Music
- Posted Mar 4, 2016
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