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9.0
44436
9.0 |
The Quietus
This is pop music, pure and simple: smarter, stranger than your average fare, no doubt, but don't confuse its oddness for inscrutable obtuseness
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8.0
44574
8.0 |
Q
Another fine mess from London genre-bending trio. Print edition only
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8.0
44142
8.0 |
The Irish Times
The good news is that Mica Levi’s experimental pop is as glitchy as ever
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8.0
44145
8.0 |
Mojo
These songs bristle with ideas like a mouthful of nails. Print edition only
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8.0
44148
8.0 |
Uncut
Thrillingly deconstructed urban pop music. Print edition only
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8.0
44217
8.0 |
NME
For all its wacked-out dementia it's a perverted sort of pop album too
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8.0
44228
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
There are no templates. There’s a sense that Micachu’s songs aren’t written, but birthed; thrown at the wall like a Jackson Pollock painting; a collage of sound and ideas
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8.0
44268
8.0 |
musicOMH
This frequently distorted, jumbled and confounding music is unlikely to appeal to those who prefer their pop music to sound safe and comforting. But for those with an adventurous sensibility, it will be a pure delight
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8.0
44287
8.0 |
State
The untrammelled originality of this album ensures that it will take no prisoners
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8.0
44299
8.0 |
The Guardian
No matter how much this follow-up apparently repeats previous ideas, it still sounds vital and fresh
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8.0
44334
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
"Holiday" sounds like The Beach Boys' "Then I Kissed Her" screaming for help inside a tumble dryer. In a good way
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8.0
44358
8.0 |
AU Review
A very rough diamond, but a treasure all the same
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8.0
44430
8.0 |
Clash
At times grainy and abrasive it’s also mischievous, melodic and, ultimately, absolutely adorable
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7.3
44447
7.3 |
Paste Magazine
The main glue on Never, and what elevates it slightly above Jewellry, is the low tone of everything. Nothing’s too high-register to disrupt or overly fancify
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7.0
44638
7.0 |
Prefix
Levi's gift lays in kitschy nuance that is inherently pleasurable. And by diving into more conventional songs on Never, she loses a bit of this endearing personality
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7.0
44144
7.0 |
Bowlegs
However they dress it up, rough it up or throw it up they’re always gonna oscillate wildly with some infectious rhythms and smart-arse rhymes
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7.0
44376
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Never is a bold step forward, but one that sacrifices the sugar-rush tweaking to solid if uninspiring ends
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7.0
44186
7.0 |
BBC
Whether or not Never is a record you’ll want to revisit that often is a moot point, but its ability to hit like a spring-mounted boxing glove to your peripheral vision is hardly in doubt. File under ‘WTF’
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6.0
44143
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
The tracks are still frenzied but there is a sense of smoothing out, a trimming of jagged edges
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6.0
44277
6.0 |
The Fly
Walks a fine line between experimental and exasperating
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6.0
44486
6.0 |
PopMatters
Never doesn’t give any indication that Levi’s reckless eclecticism and incessant tinkering are going to slow down any time soon, though that comes as more of a mixed blessing this time around
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6.0
44492
6.0 |
The Scotsman
Never is pithy, inventive and instinctive although its quickfire succession of brief, lo-fi tracks leaves a fragmentary impression
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5.5
44352
5.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
There’s a good deal of skill, talent and knowledge on display here yet it’s tough to say that for all their critical love and industry respect we couldn’t do with a little bit of soul to satisfy the heart as well as the smarts that satisfy the head
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4.8
44791
4.8 |
The AU Review
Songs came close to being ones I’d listen to again, then were swiftly removed from this list thanks seemingly unnecessary elements such as weird animal noises and chanting
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