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9.1
42717
9.1 |
A.V. Club
The sort of aggressive, pop-indebted hard rock that’s hard to come by at the moment
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9.0
43084
9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Forget your black metal and all that other bombastic crap, THIS is the real soundtrack to the apocalypse. It’s one that we’re all gratefully sliding towards slowly and perpetually
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9.0
43101
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Rave Magazine
A smart gamble, showing a band willing to explore new territories while maintaining enough ‘old shit’ appeal for their existing fan base
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9.0
42468
9.0 |
AU Review
A snapshot of the underbelly of British urban life in 2012 equally – almost perfectly – expressed via wonky frivolity and hard-set seriousness. Heck, let’s go one further: it‘s British album of the year (so far)
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9.0
42526
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
This is Future of the Left's finest hour so far, no doubt, but I am certain that the best is yet to come as this monster continues to evolve
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9.0
42585
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NME
The Cardiff group continue to have the practice of synthed-up, earwormy postpunk archness locked down
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9.0
42674
9.0 |
DIY
It’s an odd thing to say about a band quite as aggressive about their outsider status, but it’s entirely possible that by proving they can make anything their own, they’ve become one of Britain’s best bands
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9.0
42684
9.0 |
musicOMH
Listening to this album, it's amazing to think that Future Of The Left was hanging in the balance a couple of years ago. From that brief moment of uncertainty they've gone and made the most rewarding album of their career to date
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8.5
42465
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
There’s always something to pin you to the wall through sonic ferocity, always the promise of something angular suddenly making its distorted presence felt, always something intriguing in the sentiments, always righteous ire and splenetic, often absurd acerbicity
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8.2
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Beats Per Minute
The tunes are catchy as hell, too. The new line-up allows the group off the leash, lithely turning their hand to some groovier offerings
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8.0
43079
8.0 |
All Music
Shows that Future of the Left are still fighting the good fight, even if the ranks have changed a bit
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8.0
42466
8.0 |
The Skinny
Ever askew, their intelligence and fiery passion is invigorating, volatile and essential
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8.0
43325
8.0 |
BBC
Subversion of the most intelligent, insidious, inventive kind
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8.0
43625
8.0 |
Q
It's big and clever; also bloody brilliant. Print edition only
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7.0
42732
7.0 |
Spin
Irascible ex-Mclusky noise-punks take Biafra-brand graters to the thumbs of suckers
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7.0
43224
7.0 |
PopMatters
You won’t mistake it for anyone else’s, and an artist as singular as Falkous always deserves our attention
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7.0
42599
7.0 |
No Ripcord
It could do with one or two songs being trimmed, but there’s enough variety to keep things engaging, if at times it lacks incisiveness
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6.5
43728
6.5 |
Tone Deaf
The degree to which you invest in the rhetoric will probably determine your enjoyment of The Plot Against Common Sense
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6.0
43303
6.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Best kept on the shelf and visited infrequently. It’s rewarding if given the occasional spin but tiresome if spun too often
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6.0
42467
6.0 |
Pitchfork
It's a shame that Falkous is playing to the cheap seats on The Plot Against Common Sense, since, to paraphrase one of their best songs, we need Falkous more than he needs us
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