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9.0
58437
9.0 |
The 405
Unparalleled, uncompromising and pretty much unstoppable
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9.0
58629
9.0 |
musicOMH
Factory Floor are one of the most interesting acts around today
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9.0
58639
9.0 |
The Quietus
Everything you might expect to hear in a DFA club track is present and correct, but used in a way that feels harsher, starker and slightly sadistic
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9.0
59198
9.0 |
The Fly
This is music that demands to be played loud, and often
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8.6
58836
8.6 |
Beats Per Minute
Once you’ve been sucked completely into their groove, you’ll understand completely why an experimental industrial group like this is signed to a dance label like DFA
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8.5
58434
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
That they make something so evocatively alienated, so compulsively unknowable and so bleakly irresistible from simply this is a sharp, uncompromising, emphatic victory
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8.2
58818
8.2 |
Pitchfork
They’ve peeled back the industrial drones that informed their earliest releases so as to get at the throbbing heart underneath
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8.0
58433
8.0 |
Time Out
A debut that’s been engineered with machine-like precision, that can sit comfortably alongside the best work of the band’s musical idols. It’s excellent, in other words
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8.0
58713
8.0 |
All Music
A strong, assured debut that shows Factory Floor can build on their influences in a way that feels fresh
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8.0
59041
8.0 |
Prefix
Factory Floor achieves something that many albums don't - it serves up as a impressive album with no expectation
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8.0
58435
8.0 |
The Skinny
Searingly unique and engagingly familiar, it more than delivers on the London trio's early promise
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8.0
58436
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
The result has all the riveting, almost myth-generating anonymity of a masked illusionist, managing to grow stronger and more compelling throughout its running time
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8.0
58438
8.0 |
Clash
It’s an album stacked to the exposed rafters with darkly joyous, shoulder-shaking, vitally muscular dance music
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8.0
58455
8.0 |
Mojo
At its best, Factory Floor powerfully blurs the lines between human and machine and back again, and is very hard to argue with. Print edition only
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8.0
58462
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The sound of a band having a whole lot of fun in the hope that ultimately you will do too
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8.0
58519
8.0 |
NME
An absolutely belting 10 songs
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8.0
58569
8.0 |
The Irish Times
Factory Floor truly sound like some of the most exciting adventure seekers making music today
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8.0
58575
8.0 |
DIY
This is an album of irresistible forward momentum; brutal and gentle, alien and human. An album to strap yourself in for and give in to its hypnotising strangeness
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8.0
58576
8.0 |
Fact
A generally excellent album, but sometimes the trio’s famed love of repetition can merely result in tediousness
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8.0
58980
8.0 |
State
This is an album that benefits from repeated listens. What initially may seem stark, cold and monotonic slowly reveals itself to have hidden depth and playfulness
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7.5
59374
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Factory Floor take on dance music with a zeroed-in intensity that overwhelms with its power and volume
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7.0
58982
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
The LP is at its most colorful when it’s at its most layered (see “Here Again”), and next time around, they’d do well to add dimension by way of juicier textures
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7.0
59030
7.0 |
PopMatters
There’s plenty to suggest that Factory Floor has only scratched the surface of what it’s capable of, something the short pieces that buffer the longer compositions hint at
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7.0
58443
7.0 |
Uncut
Much of this album resembles the kind of murky 80s proto-techno recently unearthed by Trevor Jackson for his Metal Dance comps. Print edition only
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6.0
58647
6.0 |
The Observer
The record has unity, depth and exquisite production, and repeated listenings will pay off
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6.0
58688
6.0 |
No Ripcord
It’s never a bad record, or even less than listenable but it is a mildly disappointing one
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6.0
59111
6.0 |
Under The Radar
Like a brash re-imagining of 20 Jazz Funk Greats for the modern era, house-music-aware but in denial of most of what's happened since
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