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9.0
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Independent on Sunday
This is truly awe-inspiring music, provoking deep thoughts and sublime feelings.
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8.0
64
8.0 |
The Irish Times
The breathy female vocals and the lounge-bar backing are used to great effect on songs such as Depeche Mode’s Master and Servant and Talking Heads’ Road to Nowhere
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8.0
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8.0 |
Blurt
It's the sort of shtick that should have worn thin long before they made it to an album they could title 3... Except it's surprisingly good
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7.0
62
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
There is something in these songs which suggests their true talent may yet turn out to lie in their own material, particularly when they delicately ornament their sparse arrangements with well-placed suggestions of electronica
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6.0
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PopMatters
Between the baffling art-vocals and the occasional swell of powerful, alienating electronic effects, there’s a fully realised vision here. Don’t look too deep into it, though – some demons there.
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6.0
69
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Q
Print edition only
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6.0
65
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Evening Standard
A folksy take on God Save the Queen is audacious even by their standards. Purists will balk and cry blasphemy; the rest of us will appreciate the craft behind these covers
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6.0
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The Guardian
French producers Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux have spun out their quirky cover-versions project into a career that has outlasted that of some of the bands they've covered
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6.0
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Eye Weekly
Not all covers are going to resonate like Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah”, but 3’s kitsch classics redeem its shortcomings
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6.0
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PopMatters
A largely entertaining listen, just as past Nouvelle Vague albums have been, but a mix of diminishing quality and fading novelty value make it unclear how much longer this approach will continue to be artistically viable
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5.0
67
5.0 |
The Observer
Fresh torture for rock purists perhaps, but there's little in the French collective's latest makeover of canonical hits to get worked up about
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4.0
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The Sunday Times
God Save the Queen and Road to Nowhere are given the bluegrass treatment. It’s stupefyingly dull, self-satisfied and pointless. Tinkered with? Evolving? Who cares? Enough now
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4.0
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Independent on Sunday
Take a dozen new wave classics, and play them very quietly. So quietly that, once or twice, you can almost hear the sound of a barrel being scraped
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