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9.1
78687
9.1 |
A.V. Club
A monstrous album on which its electronic and industrial mystique has matured to represent an absorption of the band’s discography, injected with a serum of growth hormones
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9.0
78706
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
HEALTH have diligently crafted an astounding pop record
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9.0
78565
9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Doesn’t so much represent an abandonment of the group’s hitherto Boredoms-influenced noise aesthetic so much as it does a burning desire to craft a confrontational pop album
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8.4
78567
8.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
These are sounds that will grab you by the hair and drag you where you need to go. It’s control of a potentially unpleasant, entirely intoxicating sort
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8.0
78568
8.0 |
The Music
Death Magic is HEALTH violently interpreting pop music
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8.0
78563
8.0 |
FasterLouder
The Death Magic sound, a synthesis of industrial, techno, noise and electro pop, stands confidently on its own two feet
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8.0
78571
8.0 |
NME
On the whole ‘Death Magic’ makes a grander statement than its more rudimentary predecessors
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8.0
78613
8.0 |
Gig Soup
Health has reworked, polished and refined the album several times in a way that seemed so unlikely six years ago
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8.0
78735
8.0 |
DIY
The more HEALTH change, the more HEALTH stay the same
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8.0
78831
8.0 |
Clash
The battle between melody and noise at the heart of 'DEATH MAGIC' is a fascinating one, and the twelve songs on which it plays out are damn near bulletproof
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7.8
78681
7.8 |
Earbuddy
There are some honest-to-god pop songs on here that will make you question whether you’re listening to a HEALTH album
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7.8
78569
7.8 |
Pitchfork
Without the occasional beam of light, it's hard to actually appreciate how dark—or how good—a band like HEALTH can actually be
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7.5
78626
7.5 |
Under The Radar
Drum machines bounce off vast concrete walls and pick fights with thrashing tribal drummers
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7.0
78708
7.0 |
Exclaim
They've more fully embraced something that was always inherent to their music in the first place
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7.0
78562
7.0 |
No Ripcord
May be an attempt at civilizing a group of freewheeling improvisers, though their prolific mastery of sound engineering proves they’re certainly on a creative high point
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7.0
78722
7.0 |
All Music
Their most accessible music to date
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7.0
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7.0 |
PopMatters
HEALTH's characteristic noise is upended by obscured pop aesthetics on their first LP in six years
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7.0
78782
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Their rampaging style of yore feels a little constrained and tamed by the booming production and ‘nice’ singing, but at the same time they are beginning to write some pretty stupendous ‘proper’ songs
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6.0
78564
6.0 |
The Skinny
This is the most human HEALTH have ever sounded
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6.0
78570
6.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
While HEALTH and Get Color were cohesive collections of songs that created a snapshot in time of where the artists were when creating them, listening to Death Magic feels like we’re seeing not just the band they are currently, but all the bands they could be
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6.0
78699
6.0 |
The Irish Times
A lucky dip of sounds and rhythms that takes odd, yet occasionally captivating twists and turns
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5.0
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5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
There’s a locked-away sadness to Death Magic’s deadened, industrial take on electronic music
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4.5
78738
4.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Death Magic neutralizes the band’s more strident elements into a kind of post-NIN arena-rock
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4.0
78633
4.0 |
NOW
Fans will surely be divided over whether this is a maturation of their sonic identity or an abandonment of it
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4.0
78702
4.0 |
The FT
On earlier albums his vocals were so overwhelmed with noise as to be indecipherable. Alas, the same is not true on this occasion
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4.0
78709
4.0 |
The Observer
When they let some light in they’re almost interesting, but for the most part Health are eternal sixth-formers – disgruntled and as if unsure what it is they want to say
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3.3
79297
3.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Death Magic works in four-minute increments only
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3.0
78561
3.0 |
Crack
Death Magic is an apathetic botch of wandering panflashes. It’s instantly redundant: a rather unhealthy HEALTH
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