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10.0
42855
10.0 |
Art Rocker
Nu-gaze bands are breeding like hamsters at the moment, but every time AP2BS reappear it's like they're shoeing away the pretenders
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9.0
42799
9.0 |
The Fly
Constantly exhilarating, it’s a sensory obliteration that proves that now, more than ever, APTBS are much more than just noise
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8.0
43554
8.0 |
All Music
An album that's just as vital as it is accomplished
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7.8
43459
7.8 |
Paste Magazine
One of the most counterintuitively accessible albums of the year
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7.5
42804
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It feels angry, tense, frightened; a knot of terror twisted inside its gut; the existential fury of being trapped inside the endless mundanity of the day-to-day whilst staring at the rotting corpse of your own hope
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7.0
42805
7.0 |
musicOMH
There’s no denying that Worship is still a ridiculously loud album, but unlike their previous work this is an exercise in controlled aggression
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7.0
42807
7.0 |
Rave Magazine
In melody, they trust – however surprisingly
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7.0
43324
7.0 |
The Quietus
A record that demands to be turned up loud
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7.0
43330
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Another winning album that, while hardly the most pop-friendly record you’ll hear this year, proves itself worthy of revisiting
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7.0
43451
7.0 |
Spin
French art-metallers wage guerrilla warfare, chop through heady melodies, ambush with feral death-grooves
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7.0
43522
7.0 |
Blurt
A Place to Bury Strangers hadn't yet reached the point where it needed reinvention, but giving its sound a few well-considered tweaks pushes its creative momentum forward even faster
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7.0
44592
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
There are hooks of course, but they tend to be instrument driven rather than vocally, and herein lies my only criticism of what is yet another fine record
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6.9
44717
6.9 |
Beats Per Minute
More often than not, Worship sounds more like an emulation than it does the real dea
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6.7
43369
6.7 |
A.V. Club
There’s not enough conviction or charisma on the surface of Worship’s dulled sandpaper to break the skin, let alone get under it
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6.5
43321
6.5 |
Pitchfork
Suddenly, it becomes a lot easier to imagine a future where A Place to Bury Strangers are known less for their effects pedals than the affect they peddle
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6.0
43323
6.0 |
PopMatters
A Place to Bury Strangers undoubtedly has the aptitude for generating engaging rock music—if only it would work harder on cementing a unique stylistic identity
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6.0
42802
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Despite the aggression in their music, it's not uncommon for APTBS to tone things down a few tracks into an album, but watch out for the lull in this one
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6.0
42811
6.0 |
DIY
An exhaustingly incoherent listen
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6.0
43621
6.0 |
Q
Subtle shift from masters of noise. Print edition only
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6.0
43639
6.0 |
Uncut
Noisy New Yorkers flirt with orthodoxy. Print edition only
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5.0
43520
5.0 |
Under The Radar
While Worship occasionally soars on its own beautiful anonymity, it misses the bar set by a line of charismatic frontmen who exposed themselves through compelling narratives
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4.0
42800
4.0 |
NME
All APTBS do is mask a lack of ideas or something to say by inventing louder volumes than everyone else
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4.0
42809
4.0 |
The Skinny
Worship can claim the dubious distinction of being not only one of the loudest albums of the year so far, but one of the most boring
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3.0
43040
3.0 |
Bowlegs
Like their soundalike brethren Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, APTBS leer their way through an entirely predictable set of chords (barred), rhythms (tribal) and subject matters (fucked up love)
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