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The Peace And Truce Of Future Of The Left

Future Of The Left

The Peace And Truce Of Future Of The Left

Fifth studio album from Andy Falkous's Welsh hardcore alt.rock band funded via PledgeMusic

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7.6

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UK Release date
08/04/2016
US Release date
08/04/2016
  1. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Falco shall remain a hero to all of us who need absurdity to survive, to fight back against the mundane forces that grind us down and shut off pathways in our brains. I stand firm by my flag
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  2. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    It might not be FOTL’s most accessible album, but The Peace And Truce is perhaps their most rewarding
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  3. 8.0 |   Beardfood

    Falco’s take downs of perceived wrongs are worth the price of admission
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  4. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    FOTL are once again laying waste to all before them and it’s a gorgeous, balletic cacophony
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  5. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    As ever, the potent gallows humour of The Peace And Truce... derives not from flaneur-ish observation, but from direct experience
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  6. 8.0 |   Q

    Unusually heavy, even for FOTL standards. Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    This is arguably the toughest, most focused any Falkous vehicle has been for nearly a decade
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  8. 8.0 |   DIY

    This is a band tight enough and confident enough to know they can take anything, and anybody, on
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  9. 7.5 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Andrew Falkous and co. deliver a strong set of life-saving, apocalyptic, nasty jokes
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  10. 7.5 |   The 405

    A dark and dynamic listen that's relentless in both its content and its approach, which makes it really quite gripping
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  11. 7.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    The experiment isn’t in tone, but in song structure
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  12. 7.0 |   Gig Soup

    While ‘The Peace & Truce…’ is certainly FOTL‘s most concise and focussed effort since their best album, ‘Travels with Myself and Another’ (2009), it lacks range and even in its short run-time can start to drag
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  13. 7.0 |   The Music

    There's no reinvention of the wheel going on here, but the consistency of the band is rock solid
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  14. 6.5 |   Earbuddy

    Future of the left at their most muscular and hard-hitting
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