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9.0
60717
9.0 |
Uncut
Should break Le Bon out of her current cult status. Print edition only
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9.0
61169
9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Visceral and melodic, ‘Mug Museum’ feels like Cate Le Bon’s strongest record to date
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8.0
61426
8.0 |
Clash
This is strange, boutique folk-pop with a vitalised imagination – a rewarding listen, and then some
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8.0
60918
8.0 |
The Quietus
Le Bon is blessed enough with both sound melodic sense and a strain of Welsh peculiarity that lends Mug Museum a singular sound
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8.0
60947
8.0 |
The Irish Times
An album that’s a pleasure to skim, but also has many layers to excavate
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8.0
60715
8.0 |
Mojo
One of the most characterful voices of recent times. Print edition only
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8.0
60716
8.0 |
Q
This is music that hovers at the edges of modern life, out of time but in its own glorious world. Print edition only
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8.0
60775
8.0 |
The 405
A concise and commanding third album
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8.0
60818
8.0 |
Evening Standard
She’s still best at her most uncompromising
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8.0
60820
8.0 |
NME
As wonderfully weird as any of its predecessors
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7.5
61023
7.5 |
Under The Radar
There's a palpable heat in her new songs that's more intense than her previous work
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7.3
60944
7.3 |
Pitchfork
Most of Mug Museum is bare and direct, quaint and unassuming, but Le Bon makes a rather grand occasion out of it—she's a master curator and consummate immortalizer
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7.0
61190
7.0 |
PopMatters
Mug Museum won’t open its doors for everyone, but then that’s part of its charm
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7.0
60725
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
While Mug Museum is probably Cate le Bon’s weakest collection of songs, it’s nonetheless a great refinement of her recent artistic development
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7.0
60874
7.0 |
All Music
Will delight anybody with ears who enjoyed her previous outing
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7.0
60913
7.0 |
No Ripcord
Sometimes folkie, sometimes pop, it is a lovely album that won’t make Cate massive but will certainly delight her existing fans
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6.5
60759
6.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
File under ‘transitional’
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6.0
60863
6.0 |
DIY
As wistful as ever, then, just through a deliciously warm 70s psych filter
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6.0
60678
6.0 |
The List
Tension persists throughout the album, with the quality and drama of Le Bon’s voice never quite being served by the music
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6.0
60679
6.0 |
Time Out
A refreshingly confident kind of artist who wants to educate the Transatlantic tastemakers to her idiosyncratic appeal
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6.0
60680
6.0 |
The Skinny
Like dappled shadows cast by clouds against the sun, a beguiling melancholy
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4.0
60941
4.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Lacks any sort of emotional dialogue with the listener
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