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Sep 12, 2014This is the most cohesive, band-centric album the current iteration of Pere Ubu has released, its strongest album of the new millennium.
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Sep 2, 2014This is a Pere Ubu album. It is exactly what you expect and exactly what you don’t. The variety and subtlety and diversity and ferocity of this collection defies belief, much like their last, fantastic record.
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The WireDec 2, 2014The production on Carnival OF Souls is particularly vivid. [Sep 2014, p.58]
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Sep 24, 2014The result is a beautifully eerie song cycle whose pulsing analogue heart is even darker than the penumbral territories the band usually inhabit.
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Sep 11, 2014Even more ambitious, rewarding and exciting than its predecessor, Carnival of Souls is a thrilling album that raises expectations for the trilogy's final installment to the skies.
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Sep 8, 2014This is the sound of a band that, all things considered, has upheld remarkably high standards over a four decade career, and this eighteenth studio album is the latest highlight in a long list of very genuine standouts.
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UncutSep 2, 2014Deja Bu, but a thrill worth experiencing again. [Oct 2014, p.77]
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Q MagazineSep 2, 2014Though its concept may remain opaque, Carnival Of Souls compels. [Oct 2014, p.116]
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Sep 10, 2014Carnival is far more subdued than Shanghai, simmering with supernatural menace, but never quite breaking into frenzy.
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014COS is a lot darker and more claustrophobic than Thomas's press notes propose. [Sep 2014, p.94]
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MojoNov 7, 2014Not so bad as to frighten connoisseurs of, say, Dub Housing's post-industrial emptiness passages, but, yes, it's a "difficult" listen. [Nov 2014, p.98]
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Sep 2, 2014As with all their post-Y2K output, Carnival Of Souls sometimes threatens to buckle under the weight of Ubu’s history. Overall, however, it scrapes up enough sporadic excellence to justify David Thomas’ perseverance in the 21st-century scheme of things.