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6.0
141183
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
It balances huge arena heft, synth throb and an ear-pleasingly smeary murk
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6.0
141237
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Embattled rockers recenter their musical vision and emotional world on Pink Elephant
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6.0
141238
6.0 |
Mojo
It's largely stripped of their loftier excesses. Instead, the tone - meditative, inward-looking - coalesces around Circle Of Trust's tender electro, Ride Or Die's minimal escapist lullaby or the tech-U2 of She Cries Diamond Rain. Print edition only
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6.0
141241
6.0 |
All Music
Pink Elephant feels like an album Arcade Fire "had to" make, one that addresses a very public period of the band's history without getting too deep (or deep enough at all) into the matter, like they just want everyone to forget about it and move on to the inevitable next album cycle
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6.0
141268
6.0 |
God Is In The TV
Pink Elephant has some typically good Arcade Fire crescendo moments but it’s a real mix bag of quality
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5.5
141260
5.5 |
Pitchfork
Arcade Fire’s seventh album is a too-careful, too-canny exercise in restraint. It lacks the soul and spirit the band is known for
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5.0
141239
5.0 |
Uncut
It reprises their indie-modified take on panoramic, heartland rock and synth-pop, though with little emotional impact and no clear intent. Print edition only
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5.0
141179
5.0 |
Slant Magazine
The album is the sound of a band struggling to find its way out of the wilderness
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5.0
141180
5.0 |
musicOMH
The Canadian quintet’s seventh album may stir up some nostalgia for the band’s former brilliance, but in the end, it leaves a shallow void where their spark once was
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4.0
141286
4.0 |
The Irish Times
Win Butler and co release the biggest damp squib of their career
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3.0
141315
3.0 |
Paste Magazine
The Canadian band’s seventh album is clunky, poorly mixed, offensively self-serving, and annoyingly regurgitated
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3.0
141188
3.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Arcade Fire used to burn bright, but a fire can’t survive when all the oxygen has been sucked out of the room
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