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9.1
70953
9.1 |
A.V. Club
Their most assured, compelling work to date
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8.5
70966
8.5 |
Spin
Achieves a certain balance that most successful long-term relationships have — comfort in the familiar yet a fundamental hunger for adventure
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8.5
70827
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Almost inevitably, the result is something that makes most commercial music look like a palid, indistinct, homogenous mass
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8.0
70851
8.0 |
The Skinny
Business as usual for avant-pop's finest
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8.0
70910
8.0 |
Art Rocker
A fun and mind-blowing exercise
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8.0
70914
8.0 |
All Music
Classic punk and funk are just a few of the elements the band incorporates into another engaging musical whirlwind
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8.0
70984
8.0 |
Beardfood
La Isla Bonita is an exercise in catchy, yet raucous freeforms that twist and turn into groove-led odysseys, creating their best since The Runners Four
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8.0
70825
8.0 |
The 405
Few bands possess the same creativity, energy and longevity
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8.0
70826
8.0 |
The List
A typically thrilling kaleidoscope of dreamy electronica, off-kilter grrrl-pop, hi-octane, choral rock 'n' roll and guitar-mangling lullabies
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8.0
70922
8.0 |
Mojo
Such joyful invention, it could brighten any day. Print edition only
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8.0
70923
8.0 |
Uncut
There isn’t another band who make creativity sound so intensely joyous. Print edition only
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8.0
71059
8.0 |
DIY
A ferociously good pop album
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8.0
71274
8.0 |
PopMatters
Deerhoof's 12th album channels the band's musical chops toward sharp political critique while retaining moments of whimsical release
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7.6
71064
7.6 |
Pitchfork
Isolated lyrical snippets pop in and out, refusing to cohere into a narrative, while the guitar, drums, and bass alternately concoct blissful grooves and total disorientation
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7.5
71817
7.5 |
Under The Radar
Deerhoof lets their inner bull run freely through the china shop. Everything is broken
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7.5
70988
7.5 |
Earbuddy
La Isla Bonita shares the same format as the two albums that came before it, and while it doesn’t maintain energy as well as the infectious Vs. Evil, it’s an easier album to swallow than Breakup Song
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7.4
71495
7.4 |
Paste Magazine
This is one of the tightest and most intricately arranged Deerhoof records, particularly rhythmically, that we can recall
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7.0
71175
7.0 |
musicOMH
This is an album that finds Deerhoof sounding refreshed and eager to go for another 20 years
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7.0
71189
7.0 |
NME
An album of difficult rhythms, squawking guitars and bohemian eccentricities that will leave fans delighted and everyone else baffled
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7.0
70920
7.0 |
Exclaim
An album that showcases Deerhoof's ability to wrangle disparate sounds, melodies, ideas and rhythms into impossibly catchy ditties
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6.0
70921
6.0 |
Q
Alt-rock veterans’ twisted take on Krautrock. Print edition only
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6.0
70899
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
At its best when kept simplistic and spontaneous, but for much of it you sense they have thought about it a little too much and become a little too self-aware
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6.0
72013
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
A basement-punk groove band where you're never quite sure where the groove will take you
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6.0
71388
6.0 |
Crack
Another genre-bending outing that’s always interesting, if perhaps not always enjoyable
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5.0
71007
5.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
La Isla Bonita’s expressions, however inciting, remain just out of grasping reach, like an island mirage
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4.2
70907
4.2 |
Consequence Of Sound
The effort takes some of the wild energy and fun out of the results
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