A French Kiss In The Chaos
by Reverend and the Makers
Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Uncut
    80
    This second is a well-crafted collection that finds McClure pondering his place in a rotten world. [Aug 2009, p.102]
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  2. musicOMH.com
    70
    In the final reckoning, a solid album is raised a bar by its direct communication, illustrated by the closing 'Hard Time For Dreamers.'
  3. Observer Music Monthly
    60
    Mostly, Jon McLure's against Bad Stuff and in favour of Good Stuff, as well as being dead keen on 90s sounding dance-rock.
  5. Mojo
    60
    McClure has since retracted his retirement outburst, and rightly so: a third attempt might make him a contender. [Aug 2009, p.95]
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  6. Drowned In Sound
    40
    A French Kiss In The Chaos is neither artistically interesting nor indeed very good.
  7. The Guardian
    40
    The Makers' second album is little but clumsily scribbled know-yer-enemy style juvenilia.
  8. Dot Music
    30
    The big-beated momentum of yore is bogged down in McClure's new graceless Gallagher sneer and left to stagnate by a band more interested in re-heating anaemic Kasabian-esque psychedelia than building a plinth from which to preach.

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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Carlsson7
    Jan 25, 2023
    9
    This album brought me to Reverend. It's much maligned but is laden with tremendous hooks and thumping, primal beats throughout. Album closerThis album brought me to Reverend. It's much maligned but is laden with tremendous hooks and thumping, primal beats throughout. Album closer Hard Time For Dreamers is genuinely epic.… Full Review »
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