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10.0
136371
10.0 |
Dork
Towards the end of the album is perhaps the best song Dec has ever written: penultimate ballad, ‘It’s An Act’. A heart-stopping piece of emotional vulnerability in the middle of an album that can be quite odd and surreal, it’s a landmark moment for an artist continuing to scale the greatest of heights
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9.0
136314
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
This stunningly ambitious yet surprisingly restrained album is a personal inspection of Declan’s current life, putting politics (mostly) aside and abandoning grandeur to think about himself for a minute, gifting listeners a vessel for empathy along the way
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8.0
136315
8.0 |
NME
On his third album McKenna, an artist who first established themselves as a political voice, briefly sheds the title to find joy in music
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8.0
136316
8.0 |
Clash
His third is a fun yet wonderfully composed record that sounds radically different to what he’s produced before. If a little odd at points with a dialling down of immediacy, patience is required to fully appreciate the pay-off
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8.0
136317
8.0 |
DIY
Decidedly mature yet still with that same self-aware playfulness, this is undoubtedly his most eclectic offering to date
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8.0
136319
8.0 |
The Guardian
The 25-year-old’s excellent third album recalls the White Album for its breezily restless invention
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7.3
136355
7.3 |
Beats Per Minute
While it does not hand out aces on all fronts, it remarkably returns to classically flamboyant roots that urge the importance of enjoying life
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7.2
136353
7.2 |
Paste Magazine
The English glam-rock singer-songwriter’s third album explores a new sound, the pressures of young success and the ebbs and flows of creativity
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7.0
136341
7.0 |
musicOMH
The follow-up to 2020’s Zeros fully embraces experimentation and demonstrates impressive range
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6.0
136318
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
Even the songs that aren’t hooky have a likeably woozy, squelchy, marijuana-psychedelic production
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