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8.5
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Bowlegs
I can’t state strongly enough the destructive beauty of what might be the most affecting debut of the year – and then some
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8.3
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8.3 |
Beats Per Minute
With Passage, Exitmusic has turned in one of the more ambitious, evocative, and engaging efforts of 2012
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8.0
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8.0 |
musicOMH
This is less exit music for a film but more the soundtrack for a big-screen epic about the world's end
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8.0
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8.0 |
Mojo
Passage is no picnic, more an eviscerating rite of passage. Print edition only
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
A bold, revealing album that stands as a self-assured sonic announcement of Palladino and Church’s grand arrival on the modern music scene
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8.0
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Loud And Quiet
By turns fiery and reflective, this is a superb debut
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7.6
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Pitchfork
It's audacious and ambitious, twisting lyrics about depravity and loneliness into shared anthems meant for overcoming both
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7.5
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All Music
An impressive debut, Passage has as many great moments as it does moments that suggest future greatness
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7.0
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Entertainment.ie
An impressively conceived and at times brutally brilliant collection of songs
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7.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Solid debut from a band which looks poised to make waves in the independent music scene for years to come
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7.0
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Drowned In Sound
Passage is endearing, with unforgettable peaks; it looks beautiful at first glance, and has no shortage of beautiful moments, but don’t delve too deeply lest the mirage of a grandiose masterpiece dissolve
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7.0
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NME
For all its bleak, dark fissures, bright and tender lights serenely burst out with hope
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5.5
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Prefix
Most of these songs would make for a devastating end to an emotionally charged, disturbed album. But ten songs like that in a row?
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5.0
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PopMatters
It’s a huge sound, but it doesn’t reach out to you so much as it wraps itself around the players, insulating them, keeping them at a distance from us and from where it is they’d like this music to go
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5.0
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Rave Magazine
While it’s easy to be impressed by the emotion carried in the vocals, Passage does tend to blur into a haze of too-similar, slow-moving tracks
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4.5
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Tone Deaf
Strip away the fug of atmospherics and there’s little to dress up the weak songwriting at the heart of their brooding compositions, leaving merely the picked-at skeleton of greater bands
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