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Heavy Jelly

Soft Play

Heavy Jelly

First release under this moniket from the English hardcore punk duo formerly known as Slaves

ADM rating[?]

7.7

Label
BMG Rights Management
UK Release date
19/07/2024
US Release date
19/07/2024
  1. 10.0 |   DIY

    The pair have come a long way to get here, but have made easily their best album yet by simply being themselves
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  2. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Whatever’s next only they know, but it’s good to have them back and sounding like only they can. Let them entertain you
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  3. 8.0 |   The FT

    The band formerly known as Slaves are funnier and bleaker than before on their grief-inflected latest
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  4. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    The punk-metal duo formerly known as Slaves offer sandpaper vocals, spine-tingling lyrics and sharp satire on their fiery fourth album
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  5. 8.0 |   Dork

    Strap in, turn it up, and let SOFT PLAY melt your face off with their genre-defying, expectation-shattering, absolutely bonkers new album. Your ears will thank you. Eventually
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  6. 8.0 |   Kerrang!

    Perhaps the most defiant thing the duo pull off on HEAVY JELLY is the album’s closer, the almost folky Everything And Nothing, a moving tribute to lost loved ones that reveals a hitherto unsuspected ability to harness a wider emotional spectrum
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  7. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Soft Play radiate heart and wit on Heavy Jelly
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  8. 7.0 |   Clash

    Essentially the band’s first project together since ‘Acts Of Fear And Love’ in 2018, ‘HEAVY JELLY’ seems to wipe the slate clean… and then spit all over it. A hawk tuah gob of punk excellence, it’s a helter skelter ride that presents a band renewed
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  9. 6.0 |   Far Out

    There is a distinct lack of variety in sound within the tracklisting, which makes the endless assault of distorted guitars and hi-hat-less drums blend into a nondescript wall of sound after a handful of tracks
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