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10.0
116051
10.0 |
The Independent
A masterful, genre-spanning triumph
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10.0
117017
10.0 |
The Irish Times
By removing herself from the mortal world, Grimes holds up a mirror to mankind and with savage accuracy, reflecting the clawed desperation that we call reality. What could have been an eye-rolling excursion in the wrong hands is an eye-opening one instead
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10.0
117062
10.0 |
NOW
Boucher's production prowess, beautifully complex and ambitious songwriting, is self-evident on Miss Anthropocene
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9.0
117020
9.0 |
Northern Transmissions
Miss Anthropocene doesn’t stray far from what we’ve come to expect from Grimes but it’s also that we’ve come to expect a surprises from her that nothing on here seems at all rote or formulaic
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8.4
117086
8.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Miss Anthropocene takes everything about Grimes the musician – her uncanny ability to build a song out of parts no one ever thought to put together before, that idiosyncratic voice, her ear for a classic melody – and concisely packages it into her most penetrating record yet
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8.4
117103
8.4 |
Earbuddy
Miss Anthropocene is not a flawless record, but it is excellent enough to transform its flaws into blessings
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8.3
116011
8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
Claire Boucher’s fifth record is her darkest, most ambitious project yet
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8.2
117036
8.2 |
Pitchfork
Grimes’ first project as a bona fide pop star is more morose than her previous work, but no less camp. Her genuineness shines through the album’s convoluted narrative, and the songs are among her finest
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8.0
117040
8.0 |
Clash
This piece of work is a constant tug-of-war between humanity, nature, and technology, and our complex relationship with the place we call home
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
No matter who’s responsible for the myth of Grimes – the artist herself, the vulture-like press or our simple desire for spectacle – the art in this album remains: true and immutable and sublime
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8.0
117023
8.0 |
NME
Grimes takes on 21st Century celebrity, environmentalism and – most knotty of all – romantic love. This is a record stuffed with imagination and packed with beauty
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Music
Featuring some of Grimes' best work, Miss Anthropocene takes us to the party that’s sure to happen at the end of the world
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8.0
117077
8.0 |
Crack
Grimes has consistently challenged our assumptions about what pop music is and what it can be. The best many artists can hope for is to hold a mirror up to a shared reality and reflect something meaningful, but on Miss Anthropocene, Grimes conceptualises a vision of the future accessible only through her art
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8.0
117079
8.0 |
The Guardian
Notionally a concept album about the goddess of climate crisis, the Canadian’s fifth album is actually a compellingly chaotic statement about her own private life
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8.0
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8.0 |
Slant Magazine
The album is a challenging exploration of the conflicting boundaries and boundlessness of personhood, technology, and society
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8.0
117084
8.0 |
XS Noize
She proudly follows in the footsteps of other female trailblazers like Bjork, Siouxie Sioux and Kate Bush. The never boring always impressive Grimes may have taken a while to release her latest album but it was worth the wait
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8.0
117193
8.0 |
musicOMH
There’s the feeling that, behind her mask of the anthropomorphic goddess of climate change, maybe, just maybe, this is Grimes’ most honest and reflective album yet
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
The album has flavours of happy hardcore, trip-hop and Bollywood music. Print edition only
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8.0
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8.0 |
No Ripcord
Learning that Miss Anthropocene was a concept album immediately made the grading curve more difficult. Before it would have been simple to overlook a few inconsistent tracks in a sea of exceptional electropop; but with only a vague sense of unease to unify them, the incohesive numbers make less sense
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7.0
117135
7.0 |
God Is In The TV
By the end of the record, you could indeed feel completely powerless and submissive to Grimes’s new concept and change in sound
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7.0
117144
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Miss Anthropocene is a far darker record than anything Grimes has ever released
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7.0
117064
7.0 |
All Music
Even if it's not always as vivid as some of her earlier albums, Miss Anthropocene is often fascinating and defies expectations in ways that still fit her always thought-provoking aesthetic
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7.0
116039
7.0 |
Exclaim
She's become a controversial public figure whose whole persona is like one big multimedia art project, so this is a welcome return to her wheelhouse
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7.0
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7.0 |
DIY
Undoubtedly the singer’s darkest album yet
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7.0
117029
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
After a career of anything-goes audaciousness — 2015’s Art Angels being her zenith in both cases — Miss Anthropocene ironically comes off as her most subdued LP where anyone might have expected it to be bacchanalian feast
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7.0
117035
7.0 |
The Quietus
There are bangers on Grimes fifth album, Miss Anthropocene, but it wastes too much of its energy pretending to be edgier than it really is
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Skinny
Grimes' fifth album Miss Anthropocene is uneven, gloomy and baffling, and yet contains enough of her magic to remain an enthralling listen
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
Big ideas about the future get buried in sonic murk
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6.0
117082
6.0 |
The FT
Canadian’s climate change-themed album opens strongly with a swooning piece of electronic pop but the second half falters
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6.0
116009
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
The button-pushing pop experimentalist’s latest is a concept album (of sorts) on the climate crisis
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6.0
117138
6.0 |
PopMatters
Ironically, you may wind up wishing that Grimes' vision of a scorched Earth was a bit more fun
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Arts Desk
The portentousness dominates, and the odd, off-beam humanity is all too frequently left as just a trace
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6.0
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6.0 |
Vinyl Chapters
Miss Anthropocene’s concept is weak and barely perceptible when dragged out to album length, the only consistency being derivative notions of rebellion and appropriation
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5.6
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5.6 |
Paste Magazine
An album on which, the more Boucher leans into her most elliptical interests, the more her music threatens to become exactly what she fears: obsolete
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5.0
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5.0 |
Under The Radar
For an artist whose past two albums were as impeccably curated as they were produced, the non-cohesiveness of Miss Anthropocene is bit of a disappointment, in spite of the record’s highlights
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