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Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

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  2. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. Aug 10, 2018
    60
    Deaf Havana have moved with the times but it isn’t all sugar-coated and there’s still enough emotion to drive us towards their music.
  2. While The 1975 don’t own radio-rock just yet, Rituals feels a little too much like Deaf Havana have lost sight of their own signature, while hammering at the heels of Healy’s.
  3. Kerrang!
    Aug 3, 2018
    60
    Rituals is a bold, yet ultimately auspicious step forward. [4 Aug 2018, p.53]
  4. Aug 3, 2018
    60
    Taken on its own merit Rituals is a bright and bombastic record that harbours a darker underbelly. ... And though there’s a chance it will alienate a small portion of established fanbase, it will certainly earn the band more than it loses.
  5. 60
    Ignoring the diabolical “Saviour”, which sounds like a hundred other Nashville-based bands song (featuring the chorus: “Thinking I could save you, I’ll never be your saviour”), the results are much more interesting on the second half.
  6. Aug 3, 2018
    40
    Conventional, formulaic, 80s-style pop rock.

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