Spare Ribs
by Sleaford Mods
User Score
6.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
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  1. dayo37
    May 28, 2022
    0
    Boring, irrelevant and meh! I’m sure they are going to use drama over talent to promote their music in the future,

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#95 Best Album of 2021

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Dusted Magazine
    Feb 9, 2021
    80
    They have earned, through the force of their creativity and sweat, access to new places and social spaces. But even as some of their songs explore what’s newly possible in those spaces, the Mods remain deeply interested in the places from which they came.
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  2. PopMatters
    Jan 21, 2021
    100
    Spare Ribs is perhaps the band's high watermark, a searing masterpiece of social commentary, childhood memories and recovered trauma, scathing wit, punk energy, funk, and hip-hop influences, and much more. This is a record with no fat and no filler.
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  3. The Observer (UK)
    Jan 19, 2021
    80
    Andrew Fearn’s deathlessly inventive compositions stare you down, defying you to find them simplistic – the title track’s turbo-charged electro, and the pointillist electronics of Top Room, are just two cases in point.
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