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Black Swan

The London indie rock outfit with their fourth album, the first on Fiction

ADM rating[?]

4.2

Label
Fiction
UK Release date
24/08/2009
  1. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  2. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    Black Swan's generous servings of crescendo-and-strings guitar music are so all-encompassing that any charm is suffocated.
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  3. 4.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Lovely, heartfelt, open and melodic; and oppressively, monumentally dull.
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  4. 4.0 |   The Irish Times

    Most of the songs on Black Swan are seriously in need of a steroid injection.
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  5. 4.0 |   musicOMH

    Bland and languid are two apt adjectives to summarise the whole album.
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  6. 4.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Like most of their tunes, there is a lot of talk without actually saying anything worth hearing.
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  7. 4.0 |   PopMatters

    Having settled on the kind of dynamic favored by Coldplay, Snow Patrol, and Keane, they seem to have focused their efforts instead on packing as many emotional gearshifts as possible into each of these ten tracks
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