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Feb 6, 2020With ‘West Of Eden’ HMLTD have fought off the suffocating grip of overhype to deliver a debut album that is a cut above the rest, even if it is a little overdue.
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MojoFeb 5, 2020Packs intelligence, colour and melody. [Mar 2020, p.93]
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Feb 7, 2020What we’ve got now is a world full of millennials that have grown up to make art about these injustices. HMLTD have done just that, focusing their trials and tribulations through a magnifying glass to burn us mere ants. And oh, how I love a bit of self-immolation.
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Feb 18, 2020Despite the high barrier to entry, West of Eden crowns HMLTD as one of few bands with a serious claim to artistic vision and sonic uniqueness.
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Feb 7, 2020They have a default setting, which is a kind of arena goth (Death Drive is Suicide at stadium scale). But at its best, West of Eden is thrilling and unsettling.
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Feb 5, 2020Committed to a style and substance that simultaneously looks to the past and future, the five-piece soundtrack their role as esoteric prophets of doom with a sonic credo that proves genuinely idiosyncratic in the current climate – sharp, wit-filled and uninhibited stuff.
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UncutFeb 5, 2020As a whole, West of Eden is extravagant and ridiculous, but it embraces its own erraticism. [Mar 2020, p.29]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 31
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Mixed: 1 out of 31
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Negative: 2 out of 31
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Feb 10, 2020
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Apr 12, 2023Amazing album. Eclectic, exciting and very well produced. Sometimes it feels overacted but I think that it's part of the artist's theatricality.
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Jan 6, 2021