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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
It’s a triumph of the UK underground and a singular vision of a band completely detached from their listeners expectations
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9.0
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Loud And Quiet
Cavalcade proves Black Midi are incapable of resting on their laurels, and as ‘Ascending Forth’ draws to a triumphant close, we’re left wondering what on Earth they will accomplish next
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XS Noize
Cavalcade is both a testament to the successful evolution in music and that the war against banality, instant individual single streamed tracks can be won and that the sacrosanctity of the concept LP can continue to triumph and be enjoyed without skipping or shuffling the tracks
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9.0
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Gigwise
All that we could ask for
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9.0
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Exclaim
It's smart and well-calculated, expressing their range as musicians. Most importantly, it's the best path forward to keep speculators on their toes
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9.0
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Clash
black midi might be that rare exception of band, who don’t just live up to their hype but exceed it
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9.0
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Uncut
From the expansive jazz- tinged post-rock of "Diamond Stuff" to the post-punk funk of “Dethroned”, there’s notasingle predictable second to be found on Cavalcade. Print edition only
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Beats Per Minute
Cavalcade is an experience album, one that lingers long after it’s over. It calls to you from the basement
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Music
Cavalcade delights in the way it embraces extremes
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9.0
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9.0 |
Under The Radar
It’s hard to imagine any rock album this year beating Cavalcade in pure genius
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The Quietus
Cavalcade may prove to be one of the most accomplished albums of 2021; future classic of a happily undefined now-core genre
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8.0
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Spectrum Culture
Doubling down on the dense, avant-garde clamor of their debut, black midi further asserts themselves as one of the boldest new voices in rock
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8.0
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Pitchfork
The UK band stakes out even more ground on their glorious second album. The chord changes are more elaborate, the rhythms more twisted, the pretty parts prettier, the heavy parts heavier
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8.0
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The Guardian
There’s a impressive maelstrom of moods on the Mercury nominees’ new album, building to a fantastical, absurdist whole
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8.0
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Evening Standard
With an expanded sound palette, the Mecury Prize-nominated group might be onto something big
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8.0
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Mojo
Certainly not easy listening Cavalcade harbours considerable thrills for those up to its challenges. Print edition only
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The Irish Times
The beauty of Cavalcade is that for all its surreal strangeness, this is a remarkably focused and coherent album. It should hopefully illuminate the gradual dawn of our brave new post-pandemic world
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8.0
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NME
Unpredictability rules once again on the trio’s second album, which pushes them further down the avant-garde rabbit hole
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8.0
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Record Collector
An all-cylinders band hard at work and play, harnessing their extremes into newly weaponised shapes. Print edition only
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Northern Transmissions
It’s an intense, brain frazzling experience and one created by a band that scoff at the idea of boundaries and expectation
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7.0
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PopMatters
Spellbinding and circuitous
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7.0 |
DIY
Building from a sound already so idiosyncratic and unpredictable, they end up in some head-scratching corners
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7.0
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All Music
Cavalcade is intentionally oversaturated and designed to knock listeners off balance, and at its best, the album's overpowering rush of sounds and ideas communicates the excitement and a sense of unlimited possibilities
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God Is In The TV
With Cavalcade, Black Midi are really branching out, and prove to the world that they’re not one of the many bands intent on replicating a successful debut album
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Rolling Stone
The arty London do everything from bizarro-world Chili Peppers to folk serenity
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6.5
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6.5 |
Paste Magazine
Where Schlagenheim felt serrated and sharp-edged and packed tight with grooves, Cavalcade feels brooding and explorative
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6.0
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The Independent
As is customary for experimental bands of their kind, on Cavalcade, black midi feast on a smorgasbord of influences but the result at times can leave their sound meandering aimlessly
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6.0
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Slant Magazine
No matter how maddening and challenging the album can be, the songwriting and musicianship is impressive
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6.0
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A.V. Club
black midi’s record pulls together a collage of musical, literary and historic references that may initially appear somewhat random
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The FT
The band’s formidable second album demonstrates their breadth of imagination — but it is let down by weak vocals
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Is Cavalcade almost a good album? Well. Its moments of potential aren’t to be to be trifled with, but neither are they enough to elevate it from a stale sequence of overthought ideas
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