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10.0
144278
10.0 |
NME
At the helm of an enormous, constantly shifting collective, the former Black Midi man swings for the fences
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10.0
144327
10.0 |
Dork
Picton throws everything at it and commits fully, and that conviction carries the whole thing. Whether it gets full marks or not probably depends on how far you’re willing to follow him - but if you do, it’s a wild ride
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9.0
144285
9.0 |
Clash
This album is not a story of what might have been but never was; it is a picturesque view of what happens when a monumental level of care and attention is put into a project. It is a wonderfully constructed success
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9.0
144276
9.0 |
DIY
A postmodern kaleidoscope
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9.0
144268
9.0 |
Uncut
An album of incredible acoustic maximalism and conspiratorially whispered melodrama - enjoys the theatrics of its acidity. Print edition only
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8.4
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8.4 |
Pitchfork
Former Black Midi bassist Cameron Picton’s dazzlingly complicated solo debut is a tangle of baroque melodies, chamber-punk arrangements, and garden-path lyrics
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8.3
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Paste Magazine
Much of these songs feel like a leveling-up of what Picton was inching toward in black midi, where all of the moving parts make up a wonderful machine of brilliantly-controlled collisions
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8.2
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8.2 |
Northern Transmissions
My New Band Believe is fascinating, much like the art by Kuo Jun You that graces its cover. Cameron Picton is an out of the ordinary singer-songwriter who spent years developing his craft, trusting the right people to collaborate with, making the self-titled project worth the wait
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8.0
144269
8.0 |
Mojo
It sets the same intense listening pace as XTC, Jim O'Rourke or second-act Black Country, New Road. Amid the coiled violence (In The Blink Of An Eye) and brutalist romance (One Night) lie moments of pastoral loveliness. Print edition only
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8.0
144257
8.0 |
Slant Magazine
Fans will detect familiar ideas, though they’re expressed with a different vocabulary
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8.0
144267
8.0 |
The Guardian
Smoothing out the jump-cut chaos of his previous band, Cameron Picton brings entirely acoustic instrumentation to bear on these lovely, beguiling songs
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8.0
144281
8.0 |
The Skinny
black midi bassist Cameron Picton releases his debut album as My New Band Believe. Endlessly shifting it's filled with bright melodies and organic, living sound
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7.5
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7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
The context behind My New Band Believe’s perplexing name hardly helps to decipher this demanding debut
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7.0
144266
7.0 |
Far Out
On My New Band Believe, Picton & co reaches their highest power when they unleash chaos, making for a compelling debut that thrives off of a maximalist approach to pop music
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7.0
144272
7.0 |
All Music
Taken together, and with credit to Picton and his dexterous collaborators, My New Band Believe is at least as compelling as it is unhinged
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