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8.0
140810
8.0 |
Uncut
By "Carousel", the feedback feels cleansing, as authentic anti-heroes and alter-egos merge with the purging heaviness. Print edition only
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8.0
140811
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It’s a record that thrives on trust, experimentation, and the sheer joy of making a glorious, deafening racket together. It also respects its audience enough to be honest, to be fearless, and to deliver something unfiltered and real, bursting with personality. Pigsx7 have never sounded more essential
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8.0
140813
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
It's the aural equivalent of being mugged by a gang of feral kids and being left feeling particularly battered by the experience
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8.0
140807
8.0 |
The Quietus
Bringing together the Def Jux man’s icy pen and instantly recognisable flow with a riff that bassist John-Michael Hedley had been playing with for a couple of years has resulted in arguably the most overtly political statement of Pigs’ career. It’s a hulking beast of chugged rhythms and swirling guitars
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8.0
140808
8.0 |
Kerrang!
The sardonic humour that gave them their name is still present, and there are certainly moments here where what Pigs… provide is primarily big, dumb fun. But Death Hilarious also finds them thoroughly exploring their sonic and emotional range, the result an album which digs its hooks in deeper than ever
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8.0
140846
8.0 |
musicOMH
The Newcastle outfit’s fifth album swaggers right up to the edge of oblivion and does a stupid little dance
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7.9
140825
7.9 |
Northern Transmissions
The opening track of the record Blockage wastes no time getting the listener in the headbanging frenzy that this album brings and is one of the highest energy tracks off the album
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7.5
140917
7.5 |
Paste Magazine
On the Newcastle band’s fifth album, taking the “scenic route” to Hell sounds downright pleasant compared to the route we’re on right now in the US, and perhaps in the UK, too
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7.2
140902
7.2 |
Spectrum Culture
Death Hilarious is Pigs x7 distilled, showing them to be loud, ugly, relentless and chaotic, but never boring
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7.0
140809
7.0 |
DIY
A battle-ready hammer throw of a fifth album
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