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Metascore
76

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8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings

  • Summary: The London-based electronica outfit, known for their vintage analogue equipment and propulsive (and destructive) live shows, return with their fifth full-length.
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  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
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  1. This time the group finds a better balance of the simple and the strange, making Loud Like Nature their most exciting album since Avant Hard.
  2. 90
    A brave and inventive album that refuses to be held down by conventional barriers of genre or style.
  3. Q Magazine
    80
    This is an album which manages the rare trick of being accessible and head-warpingly barmy both at the same time. [Nov 2002, p.96]
  4. Compelling. Devastating. Amazing. And rocks like a bastard.
  5. "Loud Like Nature" is hard to take seriously, but it shows that those old analog treasures still have a few good songs left in them.
  6. All this variety is to be commended, but a lot of the tracks here sound like unfinished sketches.
  7. Blender
    40
    There's something forgettable and half-finished about a lot of it. [#11, p.124]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
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  1. Oct 29, 2010
    8
    After rthe otherwordly magnificence of "On the Wires..." & "Avant Hard" and the wildly uneven, quasi-prog "Add Insult to Injury " came theAfter rthe otherwordly magnificence of "On the Wires..." & "Avant Hard" and the wildly uneven, quasi-prog "Add Insult to Injury " came the break-up album. While far from a classic, or their best album, there is plenty here to love. The shuddering, chaotic reinvention of uber-weirdo Kim Fowley's "Invasion of the Polaroid People" is a tour de force, as is the Dalek-vs-Glitterband stomp of "Take Me To Your Leader", with it's Oi chorus and boll-weevil lead vocals. By far the highlight of the album are tracks 6 to 8 - the unpredictable "Quantum Leap", the wonderfully pretty "Pink Lights" and the scratchy but cool "Up the Punks" - light years away from the ear-bending electro of their early albums and singles and far better than anything else being done in 2002. It will probably be another 10 years before people "get" them but I'm sure that one day hordes of people will cite them as an influence. Just as long as they don't re-form! Expand
  2. BenjaminBunny
    Aug 12, 2003
    6
    Not anywhere as fresh or exciting as their first two records, "Loud Like Nature" continues their slow descent into listenable blandness.