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9.0
15531
9.0 |
Rave Magazine
The sound of a band paring their sound back to essentials, focusing more on craft than aesthetics, and delivering on their “next big thing” hype. Better late than never
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8.0
15592
8.0 |
musicOMH
You're not going to find nine songs that will keep your hips moving quite like these
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8.0
15679
8.0 |
Clash
A remarkable sharpening of focus at a time of flux - and possibly crisis - for the band
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8.0
15835
8.0 |
State
This is a record dense with layers evoking a ’70s New York funk and soul sound, late ’80s Manchester mixed with infectious drum loops and percussion. A slick production of only nine tracks, small but perfectly formed
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8.0
15843
8.0 |
Blurt
Sometimes moody, sometimes bubbly, but a fleshed-out and engaging fusion of rock and electronic music the whole way through
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7.5
15728
7.5 |
Independent on Sunday
For a band you'd completely forgotten about, it's surprisingly memorable
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7.0
15723
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Undoubtedly the band's most streamlined effort to date
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7.0
15724
7.0 |
Prefix
Sounds like a band trying to regain its footing by returning to its fundamentals
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7.0
15568
7.0 |
BBC
Brush away a little top-spoil and you'll find what is the punk-funksters most emotive album yet
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7.0
15580
7.0 |
NME
A more disciplined, ziggurat kind of groove odyssey.
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6.9
15654
6.9 |
Pitchfork
You'll enjoy it plenty while it's on, but once it's over you might forget it ever existed
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6.6
16076
6.6 |
Beats Per Minute
[The] good parts are tarnished by and tucked randomly within meandering and cluttered tracks
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6.5
15732
6.5 |
The Observer
A mixed bag ... which nevertheless proves there's still some gas in the tank
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6.0
16037
6.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The end product is something uninspired, lacking in the immodesty and ruthlessness that first exposed the band as one of a kind
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6.0
15603
6.0 |
Eye Weekly
As a template for some ass-shaking live shows, Strange Weather delivers on all counts
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6.0
15619
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The overall effect is a disappointing sense of something like hollowness – culminating, appropriately enough, in a track called ‘Hollow’ which reminds me of nothing so much as Gwen Stefani’s ‘Hollaback Girl’. Weird
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6.0
15492
6.0 |
The Skinny
On one level it’s a by the numbers quickslowquick rave anthem, but there’s just enough silly fun to get away with it
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6.0
15500
6.0 |
Spin
The sonic expansion is admirable, but perhaps a trip to Miami - instead of Berlin, where some of Weather was recorded - might've been a better atmospheric adjustment
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6.0
15509
6.0 |
Uncut
A lack of any truly transcendent moments suggests a group destined to remain middleweights. Print edition only
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6.0
15511
6.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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6.0
15514
6.0 |
Q
Ultimately this is a collection of grooves rather than songs, but there's depth too. Print edition only
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5.0
15487
5.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
If you’ve never heard of them, go back and get Louden Up Now and Myth Takes, two records that define experimental punk and that will hopefully inspire something similar in Strange Weather…’s wake
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4.0
15774
4.0 |
PopMatters
Like a middling dance mix; its 10 tracks merging into a puddle of differing shades of grey that happens to have a kicking heartbeat
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