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8.0
118414
8.0 |
All Music
While it's not as brilliantly cohesive as Future Politics, Hirudin's exploration of losing someone and finding yourself sounds like the music Stelmanis had to make
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8.0
118421
8.0 |
Northern Transmissions
Austra takes you on an amazing journey through her head and and her heart. It’s a powerful statement about letting go and untangling the maze of feelings on the way to closure, while also recognizing and breaking the toxic patterns that have become too common in her past
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8.0
118429
8.0 |
Beats Per Minute
It’s pure 90s hedonism with a dash of modern empowerment and melancholia. And really, ask yourselves, what could be a better antidote to your problems than that?
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7.3
118459
7.3 |
Pitchfork
Katie Stelmanis’ fourth album swings for big, embodied pop moments without shying from the strangeness and discordance that’s animated the project since the beginning
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7.0
118497
7.0 |
God Is In The TV
It seems that the dazed Katie Stelmanis is using this Austra album to digest and process her romantic experiences and music decisions. As a consequence the Canadian has postively matured as a person and as a music artist
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7.0
118440
7.0 |
musicOMH
Fans of Florence And The Machine or Zola Jesus yet to investigate her yet should do, for Katie Stelmanis is one of the most distinctive voices in pop music today. Free of all musical constraints, it will be interesting to chart her next move
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7.0
118415
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Overall, HiRUDiN is a winning combination of the familiar and the peculiar and is worth a listen for fans of rhapsodic pop rock with seductive vocals and grooves
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7.0
118416
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
As well as a wide range of emotions, various musical styles are visited and executed with the causal confidence becoming synonymous with her output
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7.0
118417
7.0 |
Exclaim
The album's highlights are "Your Family," a short experimental clip focusing on the aftermath of a breakup, and "Mountain Baby," which is the album's most commercial track
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7.0
118418
7.0 |
Uncut
No shortage of flamboyant tunes. Print edition only
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6.0
118419
6.0 |
Loud And Quiet
It’s a pity that the record never quite resolves how fragmentary it feels. There are plenty of fun moments, but HiRUDiN never really coheres into a full-feeling album in the same way that 2017’s excellent Future Politics did
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6.0
118420
6.0 |
Evening Standard
The album’s 11 tracks are intriguing, but occasionally chaotic. When it works though, it works
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