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Music and Words

Malcolm Middleton and David Shrigley

Music and Words

The Scottish indie mainstay sets the Turner prize-nominee's surreal words to music

ADM rating[?]

5.8

Label
Melodic
UK Release date
15/12/2014
US Release date
15/12/2014
  1. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    Middleton and Shrigley have created an album that on the face of it appears to be simple, but there’s untold depth here, as well as some endlessly creative swearing
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  2. 8.0 |   The Independent

    It’s unlikely to receive radio airplay; but like the Derek and Clive albums with which it shares a delight in ludicrous rudeness, notoriety may acquire it the audience it deserves
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  3. 6.0 |   The Observer

    It works as sweary fun; it works as the darkest of allegories too
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  4. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Not everything here benefits from the surreal linguistic twists of his solo work
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  5. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    On the whole this is a fine work, shredding nerves and tickling funny bones
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  6. 6.0 |   Mojo

    He's a thrilling foil to Shrigley's thespian delivered monologues. Print edition only

  7. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Middleton’s music – mostly driving beats and spare guitar lines – adds an urgency to these spoken word vignettes that are narrated by a host of actors and friends
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  8. 6.0 |   Clash

    With a seven-year gestation, it would be nigh on impossible to maintain a full sense of coherency, but the twin artists just about manage it. This will no doubt be beloved by the few who stumble across its path
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  9. 5.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    ‘Music and Words’ is probably unique in that it’s absolutely compulsive listening, but for one listen only
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  10. 5.0 |   Uncut

    An amusing curio, although you’re unlikely to listen to it more than once. Print edition only

  11. 4.0 |   Q

    By turns funny, bizarre and unsettling. Print edition only

  12. 4.0 |   The List

    Comprised of 12 bits of lyrics and sounds pretty much all doing the same thing; many of them start off innocently enough before descending into a morbid hell, others cut straight to the nasty chase
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