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  • Summary: The fourth full-length release for the Australian rock quartet was produced by Lawrence English.
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  • Record Label: Fire Records
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Lo-Fi, Noise Pop, Noise-Rock
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  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Dec 22, 2015
    90
    Easily the band's finest work yet, Illegals' little quirks and huge emotions have what it takes to sweep listeners off their feet.
  2. Sep 4, 2015
    90
    Illegals in Heaven is not an album you ponder about-the words and the grooves stab your brain and tap fountains of hormones. Blank Realm have done it again, and together they’ll take on the world for love.
  3. Sep 3, 2015
    80
    Blank Realm have always been capable of moments of translucent beauty, the dizzying high points of previous albums obscuring the weaker moments. Illegals in Heaven, though, is both varied and consistent.
  4. Uncut
    Sep 3, 2015
    80
    The latest from the three siblings plus mate chews gleefully through genres. [Oct 2015, p.73]
  5. Sep 8, 2015
    80
    What it also has is songs. Cracking ones.
  6. Sep 30, 2015
    80
    Blank Realm have offered up another album that refuses to reveal itself right away, and instead, it gradually lures you in and rewards you with previously overlooked gems with each listen.
  7. Sep 3, 2015
    40
    While most songs here would be great for a drunken dance, they aren’t memorable enough for you to still be singing them the morning after.

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