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9.0
11514
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
An album that exceeds expectations, not to mention revealing new trajectories with every subsequent listen. Whether a heavy indulger or casual fan of electronically based music, it's hard to envisage a better record than Thing emerging from any of its sub-genres this year
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8.0
11590
8.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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8.0
11830
8.0 |
The Quietus
Evokes retro-futurist imagery but this time through more of an 80s than a 70s lens: dystopian rather than utopian
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8.0
14678
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
File right next to 65daysofstatic’s We Were Exploding Anyway and Holy Fuck’s Latin as one of 2010’s outstanding post/math/prog/electro/whatever-rock records; at the end of the day, it’s just pretty damn good music
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7.0
12099
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
For the duration of their career, Trans Am have described landscapes as if from a balloon, as if the universe is readily recognizable, and yet they've continued to do so with an oddly hued and surreal perspective
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6.7
11515
6.7 |
Pitchfork
They still gets bogged down in places, padding the album with go-nowhere interludes... but on the album's best tracks, it's great to hear them again, doing what they do best
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6.0
11516
6.0 |
PopMatters
The result may not be entirely substantive. It’s a rock record “about” space, after all. But it’s a redeeming step in the right direction for a band that’s left us feeling burned on more than one occasion
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5.0
11952
5.0 |
Blurt
A solid set of cosmic funk/arena rock, it doesn't add a lot to the band's legacy
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5.0
11513
5.0 |
No Ripcord
As ambiguous as the title is, this could be the group’s most straightforward, straight-faced collection, but strangely, though it does not lack its share of absurdity, it could use more direction
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