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2117¬Montreal's foremost exponenents of Prince-inspired dirty funk are back with their new album. Critics so far are impressed, Rave Magazine seeing the album as an affirmation of the band's unique style.¬False¬

Middle of the Trail

2101¬Rootsy folkster Ray Lamontagne continues his career as a Radio 2 botherer with his new album. Critics see it as competent but hardly revolutionary, scores coming it at around 6 or 7.¬False¬

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2098¬There's a very rare 10/10 from The Skinny for the rapper, pianist and producer's album, released to accompany a feature film also written and produced by the maverick Canadian. Such enthusiasm is not shared by the BBC or music OMH, who regard it as interesting but only partially successful.¬True¬
Tomorrow, In A Year

The Knife

Tomorrow, In A Year

Opera soundtrack album (about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution no less) from the Swedish electronic duo, in collaboration with Mt Sims and Planningtorock

Critics average rating

6.9

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Brille
Release date
01/03/2010
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  1. 10.0 |  Drowned In Sound

    Plonk yourself down, and wait for it to wallop you
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  2. 10.0 |  Rave Magazine

    Tomorrow, In A Year is a remarkably difficult listen, but it’s also, to my mind, the most rewarding release of the year thus far
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  3. 9.0 |  music OMH

    Tomorrow, In A Year provides a complex view of The Knife as unmatched in their daring, their music quite defying categorisation as one species or another
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  4. 8.0 |  NME

    Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |  Uncut

    Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |  The Irish Times

    Over two CDs, the ensemble generate and develop a Philip Glass-like cycle of abstract noise and songs that really do get beneath your skin. A strangely compelling release
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  7. 8.0 |  Evening Standard

    Heroically bonkers
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  8. 8.0 |  The Line Of Best Fit

    The Knife, bringing their own dancefloor vernacular to a classical setting, have done something pretty exciting
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  9. 8.0 |  State

    The Knife deserve full kudos for characteristically challenging the norm, for daringly and successfully tackling unfamiliar territory and subsequently breaking new ground and most of all for bringing us with them
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  10. 8.0 |  Blurt

    Tomorrow, in a Year demands you step back and slow down to do it
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  11. 7.0 |  Independent on Sunday

    Diamanda Galas meets (recent) Scott Walker in a synthesiser factory
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  12. 6.9 |  Pitchfork

    The uninterrupted stretch of "Pigeons" into "Seeds" is the only moment on Tomorrow, in a Year where this is recognizably the work of the Knife, and not coincidentally it's the most thrilling and vital music on the record
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  13. 6.0 |  The Skinny

    This radical opera crackles with genius and creativity, even if it does upset the traditionalists. Darwin would approve
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  14. 6.0 |  The Observer

    There are pockets of beauty here well worth locating in among the sound of amoebas swimming in primordial soup
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  15. 6.0 |  Blurt

    It might prove hard for anyone but the most diehard Knife fans to sit through an entire album of this music... But it's evident that those involved have succeeded in creating something unique and boldly experimental
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  16. 5.0 |  Pop Matters

    There are interesting notions in this idea and in the different forms Tomorrow, In a Year can take, but I don’t find their aggregate effect dazzling; I find it stultifying
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  17. 5.0 |  Click Music

    Turn to the last third of the album if you want to hear the icy dance floor detachment familiar to all fans of the Knife... The rest of the record remains an unfathomable mystery, just like the band themselves
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  18. 4.0 |  Q

    Print edition only

  19. 4.0 |  The Fly

    An endless prog desert where nothing happens at all until the fantastically weird but wonderful 11-minute epic that is ‘Colouring Of Pigeons’
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  20. 4.0 |  Under The Radar

    "Colouring of Pegeons"...could easily be counted among the top tracks The Knife has ever created...most likely it'll be the only track you'll be interested in keeping around
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