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The Bride Screamed Murder

Melvins

The Bride Screamed Murder

Latest collection of sludge rock from the longstanding US pioneers of grunge

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Ipecac
UK Release date
01/06/2010
  1. 10.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Another confounding yet resounding success for band that has released nothing but greatness for the past 25 years
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  2. 9.0 |   NME

    This is the product of awesome power – in the right hands, for once
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  3. 8.0 |   Eye Weekly

    They can be polarizing when they are at their most musically irreverent; sometimes they’re truly terrible and, at others, brutally brilliant, as on their latest offering
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  4. 8.0 |   BBC

    [It] all works when it really shouldn’t, demonstrating once again just how the Melvins can somehow ensure their own very special brand of weird never quite becomes the norm
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  5. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    The Melvins take a more direct approach and allow the album’s more complex standouts to shine while maintaining their signature.
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  6. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    An album full of surprises and met expectations. Another great Melvins album, then
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  7. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  8. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    [They prove] there’s so much more to this band these days than merely crushing riffs; there’s more than enough room to go nuts with the experimentation and still come up with a top-tier Melvins record
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  9. 8.0 |   FasterLouder

    The Melvins continue to surprise, excite and often leave you hanging – exactly as they mean to. There is no great departure from what they have done since the early 80s and they have yet again refused to settle into middle age gracefully.
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  10. 7.0 |   Spin

    Downright sugary, a sludge-pop romp that mostly plays like a distortion-charred version of the Bay City Rollers or Sweet
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  11. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    This may well be one step too far for fans of their less eclectic work, but if you want a challenging and exciting listen you aren’t going to find many albums better suited to this in 2010
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  12. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The Bride Screamed Murder isn’t the best Melvins album ever, but it is rarely less than arresting as a listening experience
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  13. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    What would be a great record by most other bands' standards looks anaemic in comparison to much of that brilliant back catalogue
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  14. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  15. 5.2 |   Pitchfork

    The sort of album one might expect from a long-in-the-tooth group trying to rediscover its purpose and rejuvenate itself. That it comes on the heels of what seemed to be the band's rejuvenation makes it all the more disappointing
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