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The World Is Still Here and So Are We

Mclusky

The World Is Still Here and So Are We

Fourth studio album and first since 2004 from the Welsh post-hardcore trio

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Ipecac
UK Release date
09/05/2025
US Release date
09/05/2025
  1. 9.0 |   musicOMH

    Scratchy guitar riffs and thunderous bass, all driven by pounding drums, suggest that the last 20 Mclusky-free years have just disappeared in a puff of smoke
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  2. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    As the title of this release reminds us, Mclusky are here with us now and guess what? They’ve grown up. Don’t panic: they’re as daft and irreverent as ever but there’s a newfound inventiveness to their songwriting that’s clearly the result of experience
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  3. 8.0 |   Kerrang!

    The highlights are plentiful, from the misanthropic maelstrom of People Person, to the lolloping The Digger You Deep and the Pixies-esque Hate The Polis, but you don’t need to pan for gold when there’s so much of it
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  4. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    They were a band, then weren’t, then are again. Thank whatever chaotic deity made that possible, because the world might still be here, but it sounds a hell of a lot better with mclusky back in it, you just crave so much more
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  5. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    A record that seemed unlikely up until recent times, given what’s gone before, and its creators are in no mood to let anyone, least of all a fanbase that adores them, down
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  6. 7.6 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    Their return more than holds its own
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  7. 7.5 |   Pitchfork

    The Welsh punks’ first new album in 20 years channels their abrasive sound and dirtbag attitude into a critique of the ugliness of modern life
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  8. 7.3 |   Spectrum Culture

    Mclusky is most likely an acquired taste. What this record proves, though, is that this “taste,” whatever it may be, has not been diluted some 20 years later
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  9. 7.2 |   Beats Per Minute

    They’ve returned to the well balanced noise rock of their debut
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  10. 7.0 |   Uncut

    It's noisy, riotous, guttural stuff - old-school noise rock to its core - that very much picks up where the band left off. Print edition only


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