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10.0
100096
10.0 |
The Skinny
The extremes of emotions are covered on Masseduction: the highs and lows of love, heartbreak and just general life. It is the closest we’ve ever been to Clark, and it’s probably the closest we’ll ever get
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10.0
100099
10.0 |
DIY
This is the moment that St Vincent enters the fabled realm reserved for the greats
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10.0
100101
10.0 |
musicOMH
Nothing less than an absolutely towering achievement
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10.0
100122
10.0 |
A.V. Club
It’s a record that wrests control from turmoil and believes that a different, better future is possible. It’s the best encapsulation of her vision to date, here fully under her control
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10.0
100199
10.0 |
Evening Standard
The 13 songs on her fifth album teeter between absurdity and allure, seduction and repulsion, as they refract warped power dynamics and strange desires
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10.0
100254
10.0 |
Pretty Much Amazing
An artist reframing the landscape, a reverse-chameleon who can’t camouflage, but transforms the world around her instead. “Pop” is the sound of a bubble bursting
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9.5
100231
9.5 |
AU Review
It’s not often an album comes along and has the ability to speak to you clearly, while also being enjoyable to listen to but St. Vincent has done it with MASSEDUCTION
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9.5
100104
9.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Defies explanation and critique, rendering the critic a dead weight in the dust of its ever-accelerating sucker-punch of ideas
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9.1
100142
9.1 |
Consequence Of Sound
One of the most complex, challenging, and fascinating figures in contemporary music
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9.0
100125
9.0 |
All Music
It's the work of an always savvy artist at her wittiest and saddest
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9.0
100105
9.0 |
The Music
This is St Vincent at her very best
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9.0
100095
9.0 |
The Quietus
Defies expectation, defies definition and defies the very idea that definition can exist. It’s an album detailing the mess of identity politics and power structures, and yet it hits serious cohesive highs
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9.0
100103
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A genuine masterpiece: complex, funny, sexy, bleak, uplifting, inspiring and enthralling from start to finish
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9.0
100309
9.0 |
God Is In The TV
This exceptional record showcases her formidable talents yet again
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9.0
100598
9.0 |
The Digital Fix
Confirms St Vincent as one of music's truly unique artists
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8.7
100236
8.7 |
Paste Magazine
Clark remains as unpredictable as ever, though there’s one thing fans will have gotten right: so far, at least, Annie Clark has proven incapable of writing anything less than a knockout pop song
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8.5
100141
8.5 |
Under The Radar
Has set the bar high for the rest of the indie rock universe and proves that St. Vincent is a truly unique talent that is both innovative and entertaining
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8.1
100591
8.1 |
Earbuddy
Another Annie Clark album that sounds absolutely fantastic. It’s an album of great propulsion that keeps the toes tapping and the hits coming
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8.0
100427
8.0 |
American Songwriter
Whether it’s Clark the badass shredder or Clark the sensitive soul we’re hearing, it’s always preferable to the distant conceptual figure she sometimes leans back on
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8.0
100261
8.0 |
The FT
Clark limits her virtuosic guitar-playing to touches and flourishes, but her singing has never been more expressive
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8.0
100278
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
A masterpiece of confrontational intimacy
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8.0
100230
8.0 |
Exclaim
Despite her growing reliance on synths, though, Clark certainly still knows how to rip a razor-sharp riff. Blasts of distorted guitar wizardry inject perfectly jarring anxious energy into tracks like centerpiece "Los Ageless" and "Fear the Future"
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8.0
100251
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
The increased tenderness of her vocal performances, coupled with more thematic emphasis on the push and pull of romantic relationships, offers a moving counterweight to St. Vincent's typically wry cultural commentary
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8.0
100209
8.0 |
The Observer
With giddy highs and dark lows, Annie Clark’s new album is the mischievous singer’s most direct yet
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8.0
100213
8.0 |
Crack
Really, who cares whether Masseduction represents the “real” Annie Clark or not; it’s definitely her most convincing performance yet
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8.0
100102
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Clark gives us her all and lays herself bare as only she knows how – through a glass darkly, obscurely and archly – with rigid beats, pulsing synths and coruscating guitar work as her unbreachable castle walls
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8.0
100100
8.0 |
NOW
With an incisive take on the complexity of desire, anxiety and confusion, Annie Clark captures what it's like to live in this present
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8.0
100097
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
A fierce, histrionic, riotous and deceptively beautiful record that, for the all the confessionalism, retains St Vincent’s alluringly enigmatic presence
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8.0
100098
8.0 |
NME
It might all be a bit Introductory Media Studies if ‘Masseduction’ wasn’t, firstly, so much fun and, secondly, so personal
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8.0
100116
8.0 |
Mojo
Dark, intense and utterly compelling record
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8.0
100117
8.0 |
Q
Clark is both an imperious pop cyborg and a woman revealing her most painful doubts.
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8.0
100118
8.0 |
Uncut
It's a bravura fusion of dense-art metal/pop and strutting baroque disco. Print edition only
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8.0
100121
8.0 |
The Guardian
Abrasive, nuanced pop
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8.0
100145
8.0 |
The 405
An artistic statement, not merely just an album
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8.0
100151
8.0 |
The Irish Times
There are so many wonderful, reflexive layers and strands here that it’s sensory overload paradise
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7.6
100217
7.6 |
Pitchfork
Isn’t a pop album so much as a deeply, admittedly personal communique with a pop veneer
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7.0
100219
7.0 |
PopMatters
It might not be the preeminent masterpiece many are already making it out to be, but the album does have some great moments, and it bodes good things for the trajectory of St. Vincent’s ongoing career
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7.0
100282
7.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
St. Vincent's least consistent but most affecting album yet
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7.0
100413
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Despite the blurred line between Annie Clark and St. Vincent, she refuses to use her adopted persona as a crutch; through that mask, she has released the most personal and engaging album of her career
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7.0
100136
7.0 |
Clash
For all its merits, much of the chaos on ‘MASSEDUCTION’ tends to move rapidly in one ear and out the other, making it a pleasant but somewhat faceless affair
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6.0
100301
6.0 |
No Ripcord
Clark considers Masseduction her most open-hearted and confessional work, and to an extent, it is, except that it’s also neutered by searing layers of aural artifice
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