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10.0
18018
10.0 |
God Is In The TV
The Fool blends celebrated genres effortlessly, and in doing so creates something that is as unprecedented as it is unpredictable. This is without a doubt a late contender for album of the yea
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9.0
17894
9.0 |
NME
The shimmering, vast production reverberates as if off blank skyscraper faces
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9.0
17773
9.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
It might not be the best first album I have heard this year, but Warpaint has the highest ceiling of the lot
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9.0
17775
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
The Fool is a stellar debut where you’d have to be pretty much musically inept not to get lost in
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9.0
17979
9.0 |
The Fly
Whilst their virtuous instrumental work is impressive, it’s when the girls’ voices come together as one that Warpaint truly shine
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9.0
18187
9.0 |
FasterLouder
One can only wait in anticipation of what these women will fashion next, following this: one of 2010’s best albums
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8.6
18190
8.6 |
Beats Per Minute
Warpaint’s most immediate attraction (musically) is the cool, confident vocal style of lead-singer Emily Kokal
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8.3
19013
8.3 |
A.V. Club
With a torpid and feverish dreaminess, the all-female quartet stretches skeletal dirges into tribal celebrations of night, death, and revenge
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8.0
18010
8.0 |
The Observer
An ebbing, flowing curio with pleasures that outweigh its hazier frustrations
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8.0
18212
8.0 |
Q
Standout Undertow bears comparison with recent tourmates The XX. Print edition only
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8.0
17916
8.0 |
Eye Weekly
A sparse triumph of ethereal, experimental jams
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8.0
17917
8.0 |
State
The overall effect of Warpaint’s spectral soundscapes is that of navel-gazing, cloud-spotting beauty sparring with psychedelic sonic brutality
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8.0
17931
8.0 |
The Guardian
It's the consistent sensuality of Warpaint's sound that makes them mesmerise
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8.0
17943
8.0 |
musicOMH
If you're willing to put the time in, this could easily live up to the hype
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8.0
18055
8.0 |
Mojo
This band's charms are elusive, indeed, but uniquely compelling. Print edition only
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8.0
18073
8.0 |
BBC
Nine songs and 47 minutes long, their album debut feels like wandering through desert plains and darkened streets, tumbleweed at your feet and in your brain
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8.0
18105
8.0 |
No Ripcord
Even if borderline indescribable, it makes sense out of the outlandish and turns it into artfully dexterous
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7.5
18177
7.5 |
Prefix
Warpaint comes off as an awfully confident band, one you should be listening to more often
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7.5
18179
7.5 |
Bowlegs
Despite their years and glossy image, Warpaint are a band with dark hearts and an attitude borne of digging in your heels
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7.2
18283
7.2 |
Pitchfork
A nine-song seance of an album that's as subtle as it is disquieting
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7.0
18436
7.0 |
PopMatters
Shoe gazin’, pot chuffin’, garage band janglin’ indie
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7.0
18726
7.0 |
Culture Deluxe
The songs seem to float in and out of different structures and sections really show an inventiveness that is so easily overlooked
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7.0
18768
7.0 |
The Quietus
At it's almost like you've come across a tape Warpaint made for themselves and themselves only. Whether this is beguiling or frustrating is up to the individual listener
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7.0
18281
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Often sounds like it was assembled by a spectacularly talented committee, like the minutes of the recording sessions are probably filed away in a sterile LA duplex somewhere
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7.0
18093
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Everything that made their debut EP so enchanting is here and used to good effect
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7.0
18027
7.0 |
Clash
There is a hypnotic atmosphere throughout
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6.0
18158
6.0 |
Uncut
Dreamy, faintly pagan psychedelia, their tumbling vocal harmonies undercut by inexorable, tidal bass. Print edition only
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6.0
18008
6.0 |
Independent on Sunday
They aren’t doing anything new, but they’re an oft-beguiling curio
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6.0
17778
6.0 |
The Skinny
The Fool is too unwilling at points to get off its exhausted arse, and really make you care about it
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6.0
18520
6.0 |
AU Review
There’s a lack of conviction, oomph, pizzazz. Call it what you will but breathy vocals, swirling guitars, clichéd themes and surfing along a wave of potential without taking a real dip will only get you so far
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