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10.0
28359
10.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
This is the sound of promises being delivered, with interest. Print edition only
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9.0
28048
9.0 |
Clash
A raw, nocturnal and very northern record, and one that’s nailed its bleeding, hedonistic colours high up the musical mast
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9.0
28358
9.0 |
Subba Cultcha
A dark and brooding, electronically tinted album
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8.5
28316
8.5 |
BBC
There won’t be a more sexily evil record released this year
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8.0
28148
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
With a few good listens, the seemingly ordinary becomes exponentially more interesting, marking Mirror, Mirror as the band’s finest work to date
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8.0
28155
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Ultimately, depending upon how you felt about their last record Mirror Mirror is either a return to, or continuation of, form
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8.0
28165
8.0 |
The Scotsman
An exercise in restraint, in pulling punches where you might want to feel the full force of their onslaught
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8.0
28214
8.0 |
The Quietus
The band are at their most exceptional when the going gets dark
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8.0
27476
8.0 |
The Skinny
As poised, affecting and brilliant as everything Sons and Daughters first promised
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8.0
27478
8.0 |
The List
Ensures their catalogue remains high-quality and ripe for future (re)discovery
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8.0
27480
8.0 |
Uncut
A stirring record, packed full of ideas. Print edition only
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8.0
27481
8.0 |
Mojo
A record that softens with repeated listens. Print edition only
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8.0
27484
8.0 |
Q
A creative rebirth. Print edition only
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8.0
28427
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Mirror Mirror is a gothic album. Not in the modern hip genre sense of Vangelis synths and yowling actress vocals or as doomy pale men but in the creepiness, the sense that an indefinite evil lurks among the spires and cobwebs
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7.0
28611
7.0 |
Spin
Embracing a gothy vibe, they empty spaces where guitars used to churn and emphasize large, spare beats
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7.0
29065
7.0 |
No Ripcord
Mirror Mirror may be easier to admire, or more likely be creeped out by, than to love, but it marks an interesting turning point for Sons and Daughters
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7.0
27950
7.0 |
Bowlegs
This isn’t a warm album, but it’s a good one. Listen to it for a month, and you might just decide it’s actually pretty great
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7.0
28132
7.0 |
DIY
Reflective and dreamy, this is indie minimalist art-rock of the purest kind, the type that is so incredibly hard to dance to
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6.0
27927
6.0 |
NME
Less than revolutionary
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6.0
28087
6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
Dark vintage synth pop (early Human League) and scratchy, spindly post-punk (Wire, the Cure)
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6.0
28121
6.0 |
musicOMH
A painstakingly constructed and constantly challenging work, Mirror, Mirror requires considerable perseverance to allow its unorthodox appeal to slowly seep into the listener's consciousness
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6.0
29478
6.0 |
Under The Radar
More minimal? Almost certainly, but there's also quite a stylistic leap here
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5.8
29604
5.8 |
A.V. Club
Mirror Mirror ends on a high note with “The Beach,” a sneering, bar-razing nod to the band’s former obsession with the Man In Black. Which prompts the question “Why did they ever leave him behind?”
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5.6
29637
5.6 |
Pitchfork
Smacks of a band struggling to be taken more seriously, but simply settling on a more stone-faced form of pastiche isn't the way to do it
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5.0
29313
5.0 |
PopMatters
Overall on Mirror Mirror, Sons and Daughters sound like they are borrowing from the Interpol version of post-punk rather than the real thing
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4.0
28055
4.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Mirror, Mirror offers up a few songs of note while the rest resides in the dreaded heap of all-filler-no-killer
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