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10.0
146816
10.0 |
Hot Press
Irish noiseniks deliver instant classic
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10.0
146817
10.0 |
The Guardian
Your favourite band’s favourite band unleash a thrilling and relentless 42 minutes of monstrous noise whose precise instrumental source always remains discomfitingly unclear
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10.0
146818
10.0 |
The Irish Times
The Irish band’s fourth LP is an endurance test. Stick with it to find diamonds in its void of howling, screeching anti-pop
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10.0
146820
10.0 |
Dork
An enormously enjoyable racket. Five stars because we like it a lot. That's how reviews work
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9.2
146822
9.2 |
Beats Per Minute
Pugnello is, in many ways, a revolutionary work: defiant, radical, offensive, revealing, violent. It’s a record like a manifesto: demanding and archaic, but also deeply honest in its earnestness and self-awareness.
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9.0
146827
9.0 |
DIY
Their fiercest, most ruminative release to date
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9.0
146865
9.0 |
musicOMH
Dublin quartet's fourth album arrives with complete, unrestrained mayhem, music that grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go
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9.0
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9.0 |
All Music
Even among their peers and other noise rock circles they are a singular force to be reckoned with
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8.8
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8.8 |
Pitchfork
Exploding its signature blend of noise-punk and dance music to masterful extremes, the Irish band gets louder, rawer, funnier, and more methodical on its exhilarating fourth album
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8.6
146888
8.6 |
Northern Transmissions
Gilla Band have earned their place as forebears and game-changers within the scene. Pugnello keeps that momentum going
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8.5
146938
8.5 |
The Quietus
Have you ever heard a song for the first time and felt a shiver run so deep it took the floor with it? That, for me, is the first seconds of Pugnello, and it hardly relents from there
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8.3
146825
8.3 |
Paste Magazine
The Irish post-punkers’ abrasive fourth album is a masterwork in wrenching the beautiful from the ugly
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8.0
146837
8.0 |
Rolling Stone
Pugnello finds the band focused and reinvigorated. Print edition only
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8.0
146838
8.0 |
Uncut
As always, frontman Dara Kiely's brio and wit somehow prevent it from devolving into chaos. Print edition only
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8.0
146922
8.0 |
PopMatters
Gilla Band emerge as spokespersons for our age of solipsism, dissecting and lampooning these proclivities. If we can’t laugh at ourselves, we’re doomed
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8.0
146815
8.0 |
Far Out
The classic chaos and noise that they’ve championed on previous records is in full flow but dialled up to 11. The meaning is abstract, the sound is loud, but every single second is a work of art
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7.5
146923
7.5 |
Under The Radar
We’ll always need a challenging band that pushes us past our limits, and Pugnello continues their crusade to deafen their audience in the most wonderful way
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7.0
146835
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Placed alongside their contemporaries in the last decade’s post-punk boom, what they’re doing is far harder to define, and a great deal more interestin
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6.5
147004
6.5 |
No Ripcord
In a year when Protomartyr and Cola (Ought, by extension), two spiritually minded peers, delivered some of their most evocative material to date, Gilla Band remain set in their ways
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6.0
146839
6.0 |
Mojo
This earhole-scouring noise isn't for everyone. But if you possess the itch Pugnello satisfies, you'll scratch 'til you bleed. Print edition only
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