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10.0
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Eye Weekly
Kaputt is the go-to last-dance soundtrack to the fall of an empire
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10.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
A triumphantly singular album that explores a space that only this band could have made
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10.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
A rare work of historical interpretation and pop artistry, full of beauty and wonder
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10.0
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The Guardian
Feels like an open love letter to a vanished pop era: it's unique and warm and beautiful, as love letters are supposed to be
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9.2
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Beats Per Minute
Simply stands as one of the first truly great albums of 2011
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9.1
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A.V. Club
Kaputt rolls luxuriously in its own plush soft-rock grandeur, powerfully alluring and deeply sad at the same time
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9.0
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Consequence Of Sound
Kaputt is the sort of record that arrives only once in a while: an expansive world that captivates you from beginning to end, impresses you with its self-awareness and cohesiveness, then releases you from its grasp when it’s all over
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9.0
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Drowned In Sound
Bejar approaches near perfection by combining complex song structures with simple pop melodies
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9.0
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No Ripcord
A perfect release for inevitable January snow: Graceful, inviting, and evocative as ever
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9.0
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BBC
A genuine classic
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9.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
There’s no other album that sounds like Kaputt in 2011 and there may not be a better one either
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8.8
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Pitchfork
It seems absurd to look for genuine wisdom in music in 2011, when we're constantly gorging ourselves on the all-you-can-eat buffet of post-modern web culture. But Kaputt feels wise
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8.5
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Prefix
The dance-music experiment may provide a classic set-up for disaster, but somehow, and maybe not surprisingly at this point, Destroyer pulls the thing off
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8.5
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The Quietus
There are some truly moving moments
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8.0
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Uncut
Print edition only
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8.0
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Q
Print edition only
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8.0
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Mojo
Print edition only
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8.0
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The Skinny
A disco-opus that underscores the songwriting power that Bejar is steadily becoming
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8.0
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musicOMH
Bejar's most conceptually strong and accessible album to date
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8.0
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Rave Magazine
A rich and intoxicating stew of maddeningly imprecise nostalgia
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8.0
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NME
His finest work to date, and excessive, but irresistibly so
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8.0
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The Fly
A special, lasting listening experience
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8.0
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Slant Magazine
Self-referential and unabashedly cerebral, Kaputt nonetheless charms more than it alienates
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8.0
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Blurt
Destroyer relishes playing with weirdness
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8.0
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Under The Radar
A Destroyer album is a meandering sea voyage that wraps its many legs around your cold dead heart like a warm wine
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7.5
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Bowlegs
Kaputt is as unexpected as anything the artist has produced
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7.0
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All Music
There’s no denying their icy, coke-fueled 2:00 A.M. elegance
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
All manner of early-Eighties smoothness
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7.0
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Spin
Dreamy tone poems
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6.0
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PopMatters
Eccentric and enjoyable
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6.0
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State
Kaputt creates an offering made up of little more than recycled revelations
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6.0
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The 405
The constant sax and jazz references wouldn't appeal to everyone and also the overall laid-back tone
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4.0
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The Digital Fix
If you like your music anodyne and bereft of any excitement then this is the perfect album for you; for everyone else it is one to avoid
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