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Gang Of Four

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Eighth studio album from the Leeds post-punk veterans and first with original material since they reformed in 2005

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Groenland
UK Release date
24/01/2011
  1. 10.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Their best record since the late-Seventies, packed with savagely danceable riffs and rousingly incisive lyrics
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  2. 8.0 |   NME

    Sounds curiously retrograde
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  3. 8.0 |   Q

    The most consistent GO4 album since their debut. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Will have you bouncing around and beaming at the return of this inspiring, influential unit. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   The Independent

    This is one comeback that's turned out far better than expected
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  6. 8.0 |   AU Review

    A cracking return
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  7. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    A timely reminder of just how great Gang of Four remain
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  8. 7.0 |   Blurt

    A solid, respectable comeback
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  9. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    An absolute treat
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  10. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Overall, this record combines all the spiky guitar action we have all come to expect and love from Gang Of Four, along with some softer sounds and some slack funk bass action
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  11. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    They’re as challenging as they were in their heyday
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  12. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    A consistently interesting and passionate record that illustrates their continuing relevance
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  13. 7.0 |   Spin

    Twenty years since their last album of new material, Gill and vocalist Jon King spit out splintered riffs and skewered tropes that approximate the band's peak
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  14. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    If Content is anything to by, one suspects the Gang Of Four's creative tank is far from empty
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  15. 7.0 |   Rave Magazine

    Seems more like a victory lap than a concerted attempt at rebirth and renewed relevance
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  16. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    For all its jagged edges, Content too rarely goes for the jugular
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  17. 6.7 |   A.V. Club

    Content certainly won’t sully the Gang Of Four legacy, but it isn’t likely to add to it, either
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  18. 6.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Content may not be current or especially brilliant, but it's a relatively strong product from a group clearly devoted to making music on their own terms
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  19. 6.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Gang of Four's Marxist slant on funk sounds rather more world-weary than worldly three decades on
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  20. 6.0 |   The Scotsman

    The angular punk-funk sound they patented in the late 1970s still sounds pretty fresh 30 years later
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  21. 6.0 |   Mojo

    The songs rock with a tense, controlled anger. Print edition only

  22. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    There’s something more to Content than just cashing in while they still can
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  23. 6.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    An energised 35 minutes of a band as itchy and forceful as they were first time around
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  24. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    There’s a sense on this album of incompleteness, an awkwardness that permeates almost as strongly as the political undertones and layers of influences
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  25. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    An open letter to all of those dinosaurs about to reform: sit down and stay down. If Gang of Four can't manage it, what chance do you have?
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  26. 5.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Anti-capitalist mainly because you won't enjoy owning it
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  27. 4.0 |   Tiny Mix Tapes

    Finds Gang of Four falling into step with some of their least inspired imitators
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  28. 4.0 |   BBC

    [A] turgid record
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