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8.0
26577
8.0 |
Mojo
Soars on the crumbling wings of an Adverts-brand art-punk. Print edition only
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8.0
26579
8.0 |
Uncut
Marries attractively sloppy garage-rock riffing to boozy bad-sex confessionals. Print edition only
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7.0
26563
7.0 |
Spin
The results vary: "Lost Weekend" is some kind of romantic peak, while the Lennon-esque "I Am the Psychic" is not
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7.0
27008
7.0 |
The Fly
Each track is a wry comic vignette flush with blithe self-deprecation
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7.0
27058
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Delivers some of the richest, fullest thrills of Art Brut’s career
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7.0
27141
7.0 |
PopMatters
It’s Brilliant! Tragic!, and you should give it a spin
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7.0
27235
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
While the album is again principally focused on Eddie Argos, it’s not exactly the same Argos. He has his quieter moments, his darker moments, even a rare, purely happy one
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7.0
27791
7.0 |
Blurt
Brilliant! Tragic! continues to display Argos' perpetually slick abilities when it comes to the things we all leave from conversations wishing we had thought of
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6.7
27200
6.7 |
A.V. Club
Some of the finest the group has offered
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6.5
27433
6.5 |
Bowlegs
For a band that has carved such a distinctive style, it is a great accomplishment to have produced an album that is both familiar and fresh
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6.4
27131
6.4 |
Beats Per Minute
Art Brut takes influence from many different bands and artists for this album, and tries their best to make them all fit well together
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6.0
27174
6.0 |
NME
We still love them, for all their eccentric faults
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6.0
27188
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Sudden thrusts of guitar and rigid, right-angle percussion
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6.0
26938
6.0 |
No Ripcord
We’re reminded of the wonderful songs Art Brut can write when they’re not dicking around with false pretensions and cluttered guitar histrionics
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6.0
26973
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
It's neither as good nor as bad as its title suggests. In the interest of accurate advertising, I propose that the band renames the album Decent! Enough!
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6.0
26981
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Mouthy, shouty, in-your-face, good punk rock
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5.5
27067
5.5 |
Pitchfork
They still sound very much like a band hired from the back pages of the NME
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4.0
26562
4.0 |
God Is In The TV
The only achievements on Brilliant! Tragic! are down to its producer, and for a man so unchallengeable, that was a given
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4.0
27351
4.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
It certainly grabs your attention, but only negatively, and then mistakes horror and ridicule for something more positive
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