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Q MagazineApr 23, 2014After a decade as pop's court jesters, Kaiser Chiefs have finally found their true voice. [May 2014, p.106]
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Apr 4, 2014Kaiser Chiefs' fifth album is full of frothingly pissed-off working-class British rock, with shades of glam, pub rock, the Jam's lefty-mod broadsides and Oasis at their most soccerhooligan-y.
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Alternative PressMar 28, 2014Not everything hits the mark, but there's enough to delight in and offer plenty of hope for the Chiefs' future. [May 2014, p.93]
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Apr 28, 2014The result is a band that has found their collective groove.
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Apr 4, 2014Education, Education, Education & War is an album that gets better on repeated listens. That must mean that the best bits--and there are many--increasingly obscure the mediocre parts--and there are several of those too.
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Mar 31, 2014There's a refreshing, devil-may-care cavalier attitude to Education, Education, Education & War that eradicates much of the desperation that was beginning to creep in after 2007's Yours Truly, Angry Mob, but it still doesn't change the fact that you've heard it all before.
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Mar 31, 2014Overall there is a sense that this is the sound of a band brushing their hair and fixing their make-up, trying to convince the world they're OK while secretly crumbling on the inside.
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Mar 31, 2014Wilson has nothing wildly original to say about the state of modern Britain, but sounds authentically angry on behalf of people on minimum wage or zero-hours jobs.
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Mar 28, 2014There’s a mismatch overall between the angry observations and the pell-mell pop-rock riffing of tracks such as “Cannons” and “One More Last Song”, so eager to curry favour and cajole us into singalong hooks.
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MojoMar 26, 2014At its best during the cinematic rock of Coming Home, the epic, plangent Roses and pugilistic opener The Factory Gates. It's less successful on the woozy stomp-alongs of Misery Company and Meanwhile Up in Heaven. [Apr 2014, p.92]
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Mar 26, 2014It may lack the standout hits of the band’s earlier material, but the record does at least have the direction and purpose that has previously been missing.
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Apr 4, 2014Even at 45 minutes, Education, Education, Education & War feels too long, because the Chiefs are 100% committed to impose their sarcastic views till the last second.
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Apr 2, 2014The rigid, suited precision with which they approach their craft makes the band good at their jobs, but combined with the lack of musical distance from their contemporaries, it also dims the album’s luster.
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Mar 26, 2014Kaiser Chiefs fall further into the abyss of bands that have little new to offer in a current musical climate where progression is more closely measured than ever.
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Mar 31, 2014Though the anthemic Coming Home could have been penned for Voice viewers, hits are unlikely.
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Mar 27, 2014Musically it merges early Maximo Park and latterday We Are Scientists, and in the end evokes a feeling that's less I Predict a Riot, and more I Predict I'll Get Quite Annoyed and Shake My Fist At Tonight's Newsnight.
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Under The RadarMar 26, 2014Kaiser Chiefs keep making the same record, but most of the energy ran out in the first tow. [Feb-Mar 2014, p.72]
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Apr 4, 2014Education only teaches us that the band was at it’s best when they were merely predicting a riot instead of trying to lead one.
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May 1, 2014The lyrics are at best perfunctory, at worst an insult to anyone who isn’t a total nork.
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