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10.0
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musicOMH
In a year that's already been rather special for great albums, Merrill Garbus may well have produced the finest record of the year
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10.0
25235
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The Irish Times
Garbus is now writing and performing at a new and spectacular peak
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10.0
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Slant Magazine
Call her Madame Beefheart if you want, because in this inspired and inspirational racket I detect the sound of a cult star being born
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9.0
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No Ripcord
The bizarre take on folk, pop and anything else she sees fit is enchanting, joyful and thought provoking; it’s everything at once
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9.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
This album demands your open-minded attention on its own terms, and it ends up teaching you how to listen to it in a new way
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9.0
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Bowlegs
Like a carnival weekend or all-nighter, flaunting enough attitude and energy for every one of us
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9.0
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Drowned In Sound
2011 won't get much better than this ... Merrill Garbus has somehow managed to encompass more ideas into just over 40 minutes than most artists manage in a lifetime
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9.0
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The Quietus
This joyous, adventurous album is going to be hard to ignore when the year-end lists start rolling in
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8.8
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Pitchfork
A lot of what makes w h o k i l l ... so compelling is the degree to which Garbus commits to her ideas and displays a total conviction in her personal, idiosyncratic, high-stakes music
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8.4
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Beats Per Minute
Something special is happening on this record. I think
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8.3
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8.3 |
A.V. Club
Whokill’s sonic imagination outlasts the novelty of Tune-Yards’ debut, and even better, a lyrical persona as playfully warped as the rhythms punching away behind it
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8.0
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The Guardian
Whereas the musical and lyrical boldness of her 2009 debut, Bird-Brains, was a little muted by her homespun recording techniques, here every fragmenting note and confrontational idea is exhilaratingly crisp
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8.0
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Prefix
Garbus might be more known right now as a magnetic performer, but w h o k i l l proves she’s just as beguiling on record
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8.0
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Eye Weekly
An album that borrows from reggae, Nina Simone, Bowie and the Beatles
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8.0
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NME
This is the opposite if maturity, the true raw state of childhood
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8.0
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Independent on Sunday
Catchy yet abrasive, noisy yet intimate, kind of funny yet also kind of scary, this is post-pop at its most vertiginously original
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8.0
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State
Almost every song takes you down a different road of sonic peculiarity but for every one angular, discordant turn, there’s ten more that take you back into some curiously soulful grooves
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8.0
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Under The Radar
It’s truly peerless music
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8.0
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Mojo
A forward-thinking mix, brilliantly eccentric in a way Lady Gaga could only dream of. Print edition only
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8.0
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PopMatters
With a crisper, clearer production that helps it to stand out, w h o k i l l is, almost literally speaking, tUnE-yArDs’ breakthrough
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8.0
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8.0 |
BBC
Lo-fi meets hi-fi, as big drum thunder under-booms sometime dictaphone-style scratchiness in the vocal department
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8.0
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Consequence Of Sound
An album indulgent in eccentricity, compelling in its variety, and downright impossible to not enjoy
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8.0
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The Fly
It’s unlikely that tUnE-yArDs will win over your mum any time soon, but that’s hardly the point. For now, being highly entertaining will do
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8.0
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The Observer
Euphoric, brilliant and bonkers
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8.0
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Eye Weekly
an album that borrows from reggae, Nina Simone, Bowie and the Beatles, while weaving stories
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
Her vocals range from demure cooing through sassy funk to lung-bursting holler. Print edition only
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8.0
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Uncut
Rivals peak-period Eno and Byrne for the sheer inventiveness of her fusion of African song and western art-pop. Print edition only
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8.0
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Spin
This sophomore album cleans up without sacrificing charm
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8.0
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The Skinny
[A] charming and inventive release
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
It all hangs together thanks to Garbus' voice, which slides seamlessly from Joplin-esque howls to delicate coos
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Digital Fix
An album with its ups and downs stylistically but never is it anything but engrossing
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7.0
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7.0 |
DIY
One of the most unique talents on the alternative scene today, and in this latest release provides a truly refreshing work
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7.0
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7.0 |
AU Review
It’s entirely weird. And it’s also entirely great
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