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  1. Mojo
    Oct 28, 2016
    80
    It's all as subtle as a flurry of punches in the face, but utterly uplifting. [Dec 2016, p.92]
  2. Oct 17, 2016
    80
    Stripped of all excess, These Systems Are Failing delivers like very few others do in Moby’s discography. It will no doubt divide a part of his fan base like Animal Rights did, however, it won’t be as shocking as in 1996.
  3. Oct 24, 2016
    80
    Ever mutable, always evolving, never anything but relentlessly restless.
  4. Oct 17, 2016
    60
    Moby has already said he doesn’t expect anybody to buy this album. Yet it’s likely it will shift a few units due to its high energy and low filler count, though the shouting does get wearing near the end. Once again he has confounded expectations, and the result is an album fiercely relevant to its time.
  5. 60
    It doesn’t take many tracks to blunt the impact of Moby’s relentless goosestepping drum programmes and shouty slogans.
  6. Magnet
    Dec 15, 2016
    50
    The nine songs blur together over the 36 minutes, and they offer few surprises once you enter their heavy-handed world. [No. 138, p.58]
  7. Q Magazine
    Oct 19, 2016
    40
    A muffled production makes it difficult to glean exactly what he's so cross about, but for all its catharsis, the furious intensity and bangarang clutter mask the absence of real tunes. [Dec 2016, p.110]

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