• Record Label: PIAS
  • Release Date: Feb 17, 2023
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Feb 22, 2023
    80
    They've mastered the marriage of swagger and sensitivity, guts and grace. [Mar 2023, p.76]
  2. Feb 22, 2023
    80
    ‘How To Replace It’ finds dEUS facing up to their past and refusing to be hemmed in by it. At times daring, at others direct, this feels like the work of a band with nothing to prove.
  3. Uncut
    Feb 22, 2023
    70
    How To Replace It doesn't quite scale those heights [Worst Case Scenario and The Ideal Crash], but it finds the returning to the fray with particularly eloquent poise. [Apr 2023, p.26]
  4. Feb 22, 2023
    70
    At 55 minutes, it’s arguably too long, and some of the less memorable tracks could probably be filed away without taking too much away from the album. Yet only dEUS could end an album with Le Blues Polaire, a six minute song sung entirely in French that switches from dirty, grimy guitar rock to hypnotic drone several times.
  5. Mar 22, 2023
    60
    Maybe How to Replace It is a tentative return to recording and the baby steps will be replaced by giant strides.
  6. Feb 28, 2023
    60
    If How to Replace It proves anything, it’s that dEUS remain as restless on matters of genre as they ever have.
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. May 5, 2023
    10
    They are hands down my go to band since 1994 when I wa lucky enough to meet an Italian who got me into them.
  2. Mar 25, 2023
    10
    In fact, it is a 9, but it is being so underrated that I feel the need to balance things.
  3. Mar 21, 2023
    6
    Kein Traum, wenn Du fällst, fall nach vorne. Es wird nicht besser, man passt sich lediglich an.