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Communion

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives

Communion

Classic rock with a 60s psychedelic edge on Swedish band's sixth album

ADM rating[?]

6.8

Label
Yep Roc
UK Release date
03/03/2009
  1. 10.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Everything from catchy guitar-pop and frazzled psychedelia, through to savage punk rock is on here... An underground contender for best album of 2009.
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  2. 8.0 |   NME

    A double album that isn’t a burden, but rather something which is genuinely fun to get lost inside and attempt to unravel.
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  3. 8.0 |   Spin

    It's a minor miracle that these Swedish vets' 24-song sixth album clocks in at 94 filler-free minutes, stuffed with late-'60s guitar romps ranging from slow-burn psychedelia to up-tempo struts.
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

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  5. 7.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    There's nothing very original here but the obvious pleasure the group take in their influences means their inner thunder always brings rain and fresh air.
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  6. 6.2 |   Pitchfork

    If not every track on the set is a winner, neither are there any outright stinkers. And then there's the added bonus that rarely does the album sound nearly as belabored as, say, Oasis, a band with which TSOOL's shares a certain dubiously defiant rockist mentality.
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  7. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    The Swedish band's fifth full-length is a 90-minute double album consisting of 24 songs -- one for each hour of the day.
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  8. 6.0 |   Blender

    On their sixth album, these bombastic Swedes wrap their burly arms around rock's bygone excess.
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  9. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    A little bit more rigorous quality control, and TSOOL could have had something with the potential to finally break them into the mainstream.
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  10. 6.0 |   Q

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  11. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Listening to it in one sitting requires sending out for subsistence and trying to forget that you ever heard Oasis
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  12. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only


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