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8.0
13309
8.0 |
The Irish Times
It's a grown-up album that sees Scissor Sisters stretching and bending their sound - even if it means they won't carry all their fan base with them
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8.0
13534
8.0 |
The List
The New York provocateurs’ command of disco, electro and slick MOR prevails
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8.0
13609
8.0 |
Q
They translate anxiety into dancefloor electricity. Print edition only
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8.0
13615
8.0 |
Mojo
Zings with a renewed freshness. Print edition only
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8.0
13772
8.0 |
The Times
By welcoming us back into their pleasure dome, Scissor Sisters have reconnected with everything we loved about them in the first place
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8.0
13810
8.0 |
Evening Standard
This is a record that will have you dancing on your own in the kitchen
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8.0
14275
8.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Jake Shears’s heartfelt falsetto yelps and Ana Matronic’s pouting innuendos are perfect for those who like to mouth lyrics and playact the daft dialogue as they dance
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8.0
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FasterLouder
They’re entertainers, not thought-provokers. Scissor Sisters want to make you dance, and they do just that
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7.6
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7.6 |
Pitchfork
Night Work is a bold, uncompromising album that more than earns its inevitable cult adulatio
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7.0
14282
7.0 |
The Quietus
The Sisters are strongly harking bark to the dancefloors of 1981 or 82 in a manner that most of the synth-revivalism of the age has chosen to sidestep
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7.0
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7.0 |
Rave Magazine
Night Work is a disc of sleazy-yet-serious club bangers, culminating in the epic Invisible Light
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Observer
Abetted by Stuart Price (Madonna), Scissor Sisters's default Eltonian honky tonk fades out in favour of artfully deployed electronics. "Running Out" is pure early 80s pop while the pert "Something Like This" borrows little electronic droplets from Kraftwerk
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7.0
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NME
Sorry Plan B, but this here is the year’s most striking reinvention
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7.0
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7.0 |
musicOMH
If it had a couple more absolute killer songs then it would be an unqualified triumph but, as it stands, Night Work will do more than nicely
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6.0
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6.0 |
Sydney Morning Herald
It's ramped up and vamped up, with choruses that sometimes veer towards vapid but rescue themselves by being unashamedly empty
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
A dizzying, infectious experience in which throbbing, Moroder-influenced beats never slacken and Shears rarely misses a chance to leer at that hunk across the dancefloor
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Scotsman
They save their most epic statement for last. Invisible Light is a serious clubber's anthem, dressed up like a retro-futuristic Bee Gees, but favouring a controlled electro simmer over all-out euphoria
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6.0
13954
6.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
The bouncy bass lines playing off the piano chords on Any Which Way sound a little too eager, and Something Like That struggles with musically clichéd innuendo
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6.0
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6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Every song sounds like some other band, from the Bee Gees disco of the title track to the Talking Heads-y paranoia of "Running Out." But that's no reason to hate on this good-natured party
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6.0
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6.0 |
Uncut
The listener who experiences this album as physically as it is delivered will be rewarded with calories burned. Print edition only
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6.0
15851
6.0 |
Eye Weekly
When they take their tongues out of their cheeks, it’s as though they don’t know where to put them
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5.0
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5.0 |
PopMatters
A party with the best possible guest list but nobody really having any fun
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4.0
13841
4.0 |
The Sunday Times
Night Work only comes to dark and complex life midway. Before this, songs rattle by, formulaic and stubbornly earthbound
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4.0
13912
4.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A pastiche of Scissors Sisters’ former glories that sees the band desperately sewing together the leftover scraps of their idols in a vain attempt to recapture the pertinence of their debut
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