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10.0
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10.0 |
Mojo
Shah's voice throughout is fantastic, carrying and castigating her listeners along with her, while her brilliant band nails radio-friendly rock, swirling 4AD-style gothic atmospheres, and perfect post-punk attack. Print edition only
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10.0
120301
10.0 |
The Arts Desk
Nothing much has changed in what used to be termed “the battle of the sexes”
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9.0
120280
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Nadine Shah’s strongest effort to date is filled with brooding intensity
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8.0
120286
8.0 |
The Irish Times
An on-the-nose exploration of misogyny
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8.0
120291
8.0 |
All Music
Like her sonic contemporaries PJ Harvey, Cate Le Bon, and Fiona Apple, Shah presents as a mystery wrapped in an enigma, when in reality she's just innately talented and resolute in her convictions
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8.0
120306
8.0 |
musicOMH
Both music and subject matter are sometimes claustrophobic, but the whole of Kitchen Sink is infused with a humour and empathy that opens the album out
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8.0
120321
8.0 |
Evening Standard
An album about women that everyone needs to hear
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8.0
120324
8.0 |
The FT
Love lives and egg-freezing feature in songs that blend longing with sarcasm
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8.0
120235
8.0 |
Q
Direct, alert, questing, it's a record that powerfully refuses to settle down. Print edition only
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8.0
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Uncut
It's bolshy, uncompromising and demands to be played on repeat. Print edition only
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8.0
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Clash
A fantastic return driven by ruthless honesty
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8.0
120233
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The Quietus
In deconstructing tradition, Shah is careful not to throw out the baby with the proverbial bathwater. She unflinchingly confronts the windmills of societal expectations placed upon a woman under everyday systemic sexism
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8.0
120254
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NME
On her fourth album, the musician grapples with – and ultimately embraces – the complexities of being a woman, channelling a powerful voice
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8.0
120256
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DIY
Both playful and powerful in its delivery
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8.0
120382
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The Independent
Shah has never been afraid to say what she thinks, but Kitchen Sink manages to make the most intimate details of everyday life seem expansive and profound
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8.0
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Dork
A testament to the idea that even when life crosses into rocky terrain, you can come out of the other side
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7.9
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7.9 |
Pitchfork
The best songs on the singer-songwriter’s excellent fourth album invoke the surreal melodramas of Björk and the wry social commentary of Pulp
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7.5
120380
7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
If Kitchen Sink is able to speed up the wheels of justice even a little it would be a mission accomplished
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7.5
120293
7.5 |
Beats Per Minute
Throughout this album, despite its structural flaws, Shah paints several affecting and profound images
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7.0
120237
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Like a Mike Leigh film, it gives the illusion of being a kitchen sink drama, whilst in reality Nadine Shah is addressing the foremost fundamental anxieties of being alive: “Shave my legs / Freeze my eggs / Will you want me when I’m old?”
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7.0
120238
7.0 |
Gigwise
A telling exploration of society’s treatment of women
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7.0
120713
7.0 |
No Ripcord
It may not come across as immediately ambitious as her previous work, but there are no tricks or gimmicks that create this intimacy; it’s just clever production and writing that never outstays its welcome
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