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9.0
76918
9.0 |
All Music
More Faithful is a masterpiece for headphones, and more enjoyable with every listen at high, open air volumes, easily offering the best songwriting and aural presentation the band has mustered yet
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9.0
77638
9.0 |
PopMatters
More Faithful could well prove the new template from which subsequent generations draw inspiration
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8.0
76882
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
By the time it’s over, you’re wondering how a record so precise, so considered, can sound so gloriously laid-back, and quite how they’ve managed to convey so many different ideas so efficiently
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8.0
77103
8.0 |
Gig Soup
An album that balances perfectly, loud and powerful riffs with soft considered vocals
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8.0
76871
8.0 |
Exclaim
It's a record built less on borrowed nostalgia and genre fetishism and more on earnest, risk-taking creativity and mixing genres in weird sonic chemistry experiments
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7.6
77127
7.6 |
Pitchfork
They're a band that's still evolving, and letting a little bit of light in through the cracks has served them well
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7.5
76867
7.5 |
Consequence Of Sound
There’s joy in dream pop, but where there’s sun, there’s shadow. Something is lurking in the dark and wants to rock
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7.5
76869
7.5 |
The 405
I'm not floored by every song here, but it's admirable how well each element is strung together; loose ends and rainy atmospheres included
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7.0
76981
7.0 |
Paste Magazine
Whether awash in noise or floating airily, No Joy sounds like no one else but itself
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6.5
77126
6.5 |
Crack
Patient listeners will doubtless find reward but this is just too much like hard work
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6.0
78214
6.0 |
Under The Radar
An intentional, developed, and commendably layered album
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6.0
76870
6.0 |
NOW
In beast mode, they conjure that rare mix of accessibility and contrarian, uncompromising power, helping More Faithful transcend its flatter fare
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6.0
76868
6.0 |
DIY
No Joy’s fastest, heaviest and most complex record to date
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6.0
76872
6.0 |
The Skinny
More Faithful makes the case for sticking around but their best, you suspect, is yet to come
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6.0
76941
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A little more clarity wouldn't have gone amiss here and there, but there's enough on offer to bring curious listeners back for repeated spins, which is just as well, as More Faithful is definitely a grower
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