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Preternaturals

Grumbling Fur

Preternaturals

Daniel O'Sullivan and Alexander Tucker, now on The Quietus' label, release their third album of subtle psychedelia

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7.5

Label
The Quietus Phonographic Corporation
UK Release date
11/08/2014
US Release date
19/08/2014
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  1. 9.0 |   The 405

    Grumbling Fur spit in the face of genre conventions
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  2. 9.0 |   God Is In The TV

    It sounds quite like nothing else you’ll hear this year. Preternaturals is utterly transformative
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  3. 8.0 |   Under The Radar

    The 'Fur is forging a bold new path through the thick forest of psychedelia
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  4. 8.0 |   Q

    Very old school psychedelia that hints at rituals beyond the privet and sigils on the parquet floors. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   All Music

    Catchy, odd, and deeply inspired, the nine songs and soundscapes here fit together like some delightful puzzle that's always one or two pieces away from completion
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  6. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    There'd be browned pants galore, should any of the current delay-pedal toting garage rock crop masquerading as 'psychedelic' delve as deeply into the mind's eye as Grumbling Fur
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  7. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The sound of Grumbling Fur squeezing surrealism out of a pop context
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  8. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    A dense, intelligent and rewarding album
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  9. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Patience pays plentiful dividends: there’s a whole heap of arresting detail scattered here to render deceptively low-key numbers into compelling combinations of pop and psychedelia
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  10. 8.0 |   The List

    Few bands can master the art of the uncanny, yet these songs have eerie undertones within them, a satisfyingly irksome feeling that they’ve fallen into place as part of something far bigger
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  11. 7.0 |   Uncut

    Curious samples and effects lend the proceedings a satisfying air of oddness. Print edition only

  12. 7.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    This is a record tinged with a faint sense of unease, if not quite surrealism
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  13. 6.0 |   DIY

    Graceful and intriguing, if not vastly pulse quickening
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  14. 6.0 |   Mojo

    As if these pop chants were also magic spells designed to awaken something ancient and terrible. Print edition only

  15. 6.0 |   The FT

    Any sense of psychedelic dislocation is subtle rather than jarring
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