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9.0
16980
9.0 |
NME
You can call this drag or witch house if you like but regardless of its genre tag this is monumental
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9.0
17233
9.0 |
musicOMH
The creation of warped minds, Salem just made a monster
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8.0
17482
8.0 |
The Quietus
When the album heads towards more extreme depths, when Donoghue's pitch-shifted growl signals an increase in bass and industrial synth tones alongside the hazy sung vocal, we are in a far more intriguing place, albeit an uncomfortable one
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8.0
16975
8.0 |
Q
Simultaneously blissed-out and hellish. Print edition only
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8.0
16978
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Salem sound like very little else out there
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8.0
16987
8.0 |
Uncut
Played loud, King Night is a widescreen hallucinogen. Print edition only
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8.0
17204
8.0 |
State
Dark and brooding
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8.0
18128
8.0 |
Prefix
The trio has crafted a sound that still doesn't really sound like anything else
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7.5
17476
7.5 |
Pitchfork
It's hard to deny that the group has carved out an original and compelling niche
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7.5
17024
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
A stray into the dark side with the knowledge that every thing is going to be alright
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7.0
16977
7.0 |
BBC
For all the calculated horror show element, much of King Night is very pretty and nuanced
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7.0
17529
7.0 |
Culture Deluxe
It’s Salem’s carelessness, their middle finger to common sound aesthetics, that will be the thing that makes them big
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7.0
17567
7.0 |
The Quietus
It plays with your sense of space, time and identity
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7.0
17277
7.0 |
Beats Per Minute
In short doses it’s brutal, thrilling and scary as hell
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6.0
16974
6.0 |
The Observer
Opens with such demonic force that it puts the rest of the album at a disadvantage
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6.0
17060
6.0 |
Clash
An interesting, if perhaps slightly contrived, oddity
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6.0
17119
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
A cesspool of New Wave synths, goth-shoegaze moans, slow-mo raps
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6.0
17127
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
If we know anything from the fairy tales, it's that straying from the path inevitably leads to the scary shit. But is it a journey worth taking? Definitely
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5.0
19008
5.0 |
A.V. Club
Assembles elements of shoegazer pop, Southern hip-hop, and New Age into corny makeout music for goth parties
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4.0
17467
4.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
A choir that sounds as if practicing for a recital at the end of the world
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4.0
16981
4.0 |
Spin
Trash, art, or stunt? In the few effective moments, it's all three
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3.3
17849
3.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
There is no journey to be found in the album, and the music is ultimately a monotonous collection of crack-pipe nightmares
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