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BBC
The Strokes have here upped their own ante like nobody could have foreseen. Except for the band members themselves, of course. Prepare to be smitten anew
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9.0
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FasterLouder
With all its enthusiastic experimentation, Angles is perhaps the most interesting Strokes record to date.
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9.0
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musicOMH
Angles shows that The Strokes are still very much a factor in 2011, and rightly so. Disjointed, hyperactive, experimental, whatever. Angles is the album to beat this year
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8.3
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A.V. Club
Have proven once again with Angles that they are actually one of the era’s top mainstream pop-rock acts
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8.0
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The Scotsman
Genuinely sounds like a revivified band spreading their wings
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
Just because the hosts are grumpy, it doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t enjoy the party
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8.0
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The Irish Times
It’s almost as if they’ve given up trying to be the Is That It band and are just concentrating on making very good music. About time
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8.0
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State
It is impressive how easily they translated much of the infectious hooks that make up their signature guitar songs to synths
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
The Strokes invented their own rock. They also want to be better. And that takes time
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8.0
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Consequence Of Sound
It’s a multidimensional record that picks and pulls from various folders ... It’s a sultry exhibition, one that spotlights the band’s strengths, yet also its weaknesses
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8.0
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Uncut
A terrific record that plays to The Strokes' strengths ... and also adds fresh colour to their palette
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8.0
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Q
Angles is the first time they've shared the songwriting democratically ... and there's a sense of confident adventure - surprises that don't feel like stretches. Print edition only
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8.0
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Spin
On Angles, the Strokes' trick isn't fooling us into thinking these tunes fell to Stanton Street fully formed. It's that a group of reunited rock stars somehow come on like wide-eyed kids
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8.0
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Clash
Infused with ’80s bigness, Velvets-meets-Krautrock pulsing, shadows of Suicide, and stimulated by renewed friendships
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8.0
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Rave Magazine
A short and sweet album
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7.5
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Beats Per Minute
Though some songs do wander and suffer from being self-indulgent, The Strokes have taken a step back in the right direction with this record
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7.0
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The Fly
In the end, ‘Angles’ is a timely reminder that, at their best, The Strokes are still effortlessly ace, no matter how schizophrenic or elusive they’ve become
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7.0
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NME
... there is undeniably life left in The Strokes. When they really want to they can still make great music
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6.0
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The Skinny
A respectable, if disappointingly toothless record, especially given the promise of its predecessor
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6.0
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Mojo
There's half a dozen gimmes ... in which The Strokes show the pretenders to their throne how the posh-boy Bowery boogie should be done and pop life feels simple. Print edition only
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6.0
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The Independent
Closer to the mood of its predecessor than might be welcome
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6.0
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No Ripcord
Feels both confused and entirely deliberate
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6.0
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Scotland on Sunday
Does not know what it hopes to be
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6.0
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PopMatters
A disjointed, uneven effort
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6.0
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The Digital Fix
This is a band falling back on what it knows and doing so moderately well
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6.0
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Independent on Sunday
Coming from a band who blatantly don't want to be a band any more, Angles is inevitably disjointed. But it's not disastrous
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6.0
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Slant Magazine
There are times when it's a pleasure to hear them work, most of the time the album sounds like a divorce settlement being pieced together one painstaking line at a time
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6.0
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Evening Standard
The band are at their best when sounding like their old selves. Under Cover of Darkness exudes Strokes swagger, Metabolism oozes world-weariness
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6.0
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Bowlegs
As an album this is slick stuff, from performance to production. Yet it feels far from vital. The songs just aren’t strong enough to compete with the impressive instrumentation
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6.0
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Under The Radar
They’re maturing gracelessly, still in love with the fool’s gold myth of rock and roll, which is precisely why Angles succeeds as a record
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5.9
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Pitchfork
Not a roaring comeback as much as a glorified spit-balling session
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5.0
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The Observer
It doesn't take a conflict analyst to grasp that Casablancas has ceded significant creative control to his band mates in the interest of keeping the Strokes intact
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5.0
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Entertainment.ie
While the band themselves claimed that 'Angles' would be a return to their earlier sound, there is certainly a marked progression here, with more precision and introspection than ever before in their career
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5.0
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DIY
Ten years ago, The Strokes posed a clever rhetorical question: Is This It? Seems we finally have the answer
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5.0
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AU Review
The lovely closer, ‘Life Is Simple In The Moonlight’, almost feels like an annoying tease – a reminder how good The Strokes should be. But at least they are back
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4.5
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Prefix
That things don't sound quite so effortless anymore might have something to do with the way the album was recorded
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4.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
It’s genuinely frustrating and downright distressing to hear a band that you once loved absolutely drowning under the weight of their own expectations (as diminished as they were) on this record
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4.0
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Daily Telegraph
Perhaps getting their act together on the road, rather than in the studio, would have produced better results
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4.0
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The Guardian
Angles just sounds like an album made by people who really didn't want to make an album
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4.0
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The Quietus
A moribund record, joyless, lazy, lacking in vigour and vim
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4.0
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Eye Weekly
The sound of a band desperate to redefine its essence but unwilling to commit to a particular vision
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3.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Comes across less like a creative mess and more like a stoned-battle-of-the-bands gone wrong
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