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8.0
59021
8.0 |
Q
The indestructible gender-bender's seventh triumph. Print edition only
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7.0
59012
7.0 |
All Music
Many of these songs play like less-alienated, if no less paranoid, OK Computer-era Radiohead cuts
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6.0
59013
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Equally far from disappointment or ascendency, it tacks about its ashen existence, perfectly fine and perfectly listenable and perfectly suffering for it
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6.0
59014
6.0 |
Clash
50 minutes of simply okay alt-rock
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6.0
59015
6.0 |
musicOMH
Even the die-hards might have to admit that their favourite band are at a crossroads
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6.0
59016
6.0 |
Mojo
Placebo are growing old gracefully. Print edition only
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6.0
59018
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
An emotive, involving stab at stadium pop
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6.0
59304
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
A solid, if unremarkable, effort
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5.0
59011
5.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Half-way through the record, in his unique quaver-soar of a voice, Molko asks “Can’t you tell I’ve lost my way?”. Unfortunately, I rather can
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4.0
59017
4.0 |
The Guardian
Molko is either writing from memory or for an audience
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4.0
59076
4.0 |
NME
Placebo have been plumbing the same vein for so long, they've slipped into self-parody
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4.0
59080
4.0 |
PopMatters
At this point in the game, with so many albums under their belt, the band needs to pull out more stops in order to keep the masses engaged
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3.0
59204
3.0 |
God Is In The TV
Seven albums down the line Brian Molko‘s tiresome whine becomes increasingly grating, even more of a problem when his songwriting skills have been diminishing
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3.0
59418
3.0 |
No Ripcord
Where other bands that have stood the test of time have evolved, or maintained a fresh, thoroughly refined sound, Brian Molko and his latest line up seem to still be trying to tap into a spring that ran dry some time around the turn of the century
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