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Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. Q Magazine
    Aug 25, 2015
    80
    Uncompromising as ever, Hidden Fields is an alien transmission from a band with a singular vision. [Oct 2015, p.115]
  2. Aug 21, 2015
    80
    They probably could have sold themselves as a revival band or pretended to re-form in their poppier guise; that they have made an ugly, snarlingly dark album like Hidden Fields instead is truly impressive.
  3. Aug 14, 2015
    80
    Devastating until the very last note subsides, this is arguably The Telescopes' finest record for over a decade. Prepare to be pulverised.
  4. Aug 10, 2015
    80
    Hidden Fields presents a binary world of pure noise set against the briefest interludes of silence between the tracks. It's only during the quiet moments that you can comprehend just how vast this album is.
  5. Aug 10, 2015
    80
    Strangely mesmerising and addictive, this album will have you in its hold if given the chance.
  6. Uncut
    Aug 10, 2015
    70
    The perfect needle, pitched into the red every time. [Sep 2015, p.81]
  7. Aug 17, 2015
    60
    The whole is a little too tethered to the (partially incomprehensible) songs to drift off effectively, and is too morose to uplift, yet The Telescopes continue to own a certain core sensibility--and the capacity to surprise with how they express it.
  8. Mojo
    Aug 10, 2015
    60
    Hidden Fields finds Lawrie drifting back to his black-denim roots with five tracks of distortion heavy, song-based sedation.[Sep 2015, p.92]

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