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9.0
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Independent on Sunday
The plantpot-headed sextet's comeback is the sound of bright brains having fun. And that's never a chore
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8.0
13376
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Daily Telegraph
Packed with catchy tunes and feels effortlessly current
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8.0
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musicOMH
After 20 years out of the spotlight, this is a terrific return to form
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8.0
13425
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Scotland on Sunday
Experience has made Devo yet more potent in the pop domain. These songs are ferociously commercia
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8.0
13107
8.0 |
The Skinny
Devo have stayed sharp by tweaking their trademarks rather than trend-chasing, and remained oddly fashionable regardless
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8.0
13293
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The Independent
At its best their punchy "mechanized swing" electropop has lost none of its appeal since the masterful Freedom of Choice
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8.0
13324
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The Times
This is the perfect time for the group to parachute themselves into mainstream contention
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8.0
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The Guardian
"It's all the same, there's nothing new," they sing on the album's catchiest track, handily identifying what makes Something for Everybody such an unabashed delight
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8.0
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Consequence Of Sound
This isn’t an old band’s noteworthy but ultimately underwhelming re-emergence as we’ve seen so often in the last decade. This is the continuation in a legacy of musical pop artistry – fresh and brilliant
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7.0
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Drowned In Sound
Tracks one through six are up there with the most out-and-out enjoyable stuff Devo have ever produced
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7.0
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The Digital Fix
There’s enough here to cause some rejoicing at the Lazarus like return of one of the most influential bands in pop history. Jump into their hybrid car, it’s going to be a hell of a journey
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7.0
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The Observer
They still get those limbs jerking like few others
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7.0
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BBC
There is just enough here to suggest the end is hardly nigh. Musically, at least, Devo still sit right up the front of the good ship electronica
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
Devo have held on to their core belief: If you want to be subversive, be utterly, unrelentingly pop
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7.0
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Spin
The spud boys return to show dancey electro-pop pretenders how it's done
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6.6
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Pitchfork
Contains some pretty good music-- the kind that actually sneaks up on you a little rather than ham-fisting you over the head
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6.5
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The Line Of Best Fit
Definitely has its moments, but it’s not the consistent thrill that they were once capable of, and is more likely to preach Devolution to the converted than win over any new supporters
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6.0
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The Scotsman
Devo have always been cheerful satirists but the knives have not been sharpened quite so assiduously on Something For Everybody
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6.0
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The Quietus
Tantalising moments of brilliance padded out by an awful lot of filler and a few tracks which never should have reached the ears of anyone outside the studio
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6.0
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Mojo
In a year that has seen the return of a number of pioneering electronica acts, it's only fair we get Devo too. Print edition only
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5.0
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FasterLouder
Torn between revisiting the group’s ‘80s sound for nostalgia value and updating it in order to better mock contemporary pop culture; treading the middle ground, this album does neither very well
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5.0
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Blurt
If Something for Everybody wasn't a Devo album, there's no doubt that it would be instantly dismissed as a heavy-handed piece of music-by-committee
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5.0
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NME
It only proves that DEVO’s original concept was so tight that whether they deviate from or doggedly stick to it, they’ll never be as good as ‘Jocko Homo’
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4.0
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Evening Standard
Sounds like an ordinary Eighties record, noisy of sloganeering, drum, bass and synthesiser, bereft of melody and charm
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4.0
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PopMatters
Sounds like nerdy Dad trying to be cool Dad
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2.0
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Uncut
Stuck in an eternally wacky MTV 1982 of the soul. Print edition only
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