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8.5
34484
8.5 |
Uncut
The most extraordinary, passionate and just plain brilliant record either participant has made for a long while
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8.0
35074
8.0 |
State
Lulu is, while not quite the best thing either party has ever done, certainly the best new material either has come up with in some time
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8.0
34403
8.0 |
The Digital Fix
Haters? We give you a middle-digit, proudly raised
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8.0
33947
8.0 |
Mojo
The shock in this collaboration is that it sounds savagely natural. Print edition only
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7.0
34228
7.0 |
NME
Prententious? Oui. Self-important? Natch. Any cop? Pretty damn fine actually. Print edition only
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6.0
34132
6.0 |
Daily Telegraph
It’s the sheer sense of unrestrained folly throughout that makes Lulu feel like an important album
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6.0
34295
6.0 |
BBC
An unsettling and relentless assault that is more artistic instillation than rock opera.
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6.0
34328
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Things can get ponderous once Metallica start impatiently stomping, but often they turn Reed's pretensions into something muscular
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5.0
34487
5.0 |
Paste Magazine
It’s not an especially good album, but its failures are noble rather than ignoble—byproducts of ambition rather than hubris. In a weird way, that makes its flaws more sympathetic and turns it into something of a grower
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4.0
34543
4.0 |
The Scotsman
The soundtrack for a painful and slow artistic bankruptcy
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4.0
34635
4.0 |
Clash
Some people have already dismissed this as one of the worst albums ever recorded. It’s not that bad. But neither is it a patch on the best art that Reed and Metallica have produced
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4.0
34467
4.0 |
No Ripcord
Up until Lulu, I didn’t think it was possible to be both enamored and disgusted at the same time. Mind? Blown
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4.0
34481
4.0 |
Rave Magazine
There’s enough substance to Lulu to understand why the record was made … but not a whole lot more to convince you that it’s worth listening to
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4.0
34214
4.0 |
The Observer
There's precious little else to recommend about this unlikely project
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4.0
34231
4.0 |
Q
It's so over the top the more likely reaction is to turn it off and make sure you don't hear it again in a hurry. Print edition only
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4.0
34013
4.0 |
The Skinny
Lulu ultimately smacks of a botched experiment that both parties were just too proud to abort
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4.0
34153
4.0 |
The Guardian
It's impossible to over-emphasise just how gruelling the hour-and-a-half you spend in the company of Lou Reed and Metallica is
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4.0
34154
4.0 |
The Independent
Steeped in art-house self-regard, mired in the vilest extremes of perversion and misery, barked out with as little human warmth as its practitioners can muster and its leaden tortures drawn out to unbearable lengths
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3.0
34158
3.0 |
AU Review
Little more than the bizarre torture rape fantasy of a 69-year-old sadistic narcissist. It’s not so much shocking as it is pathetic
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3.0
34265
3.0 |
Beats Per Minute
The whole thing comes off as either an expensive major label joke or nigh-impenetrable high art concept. Maybe both
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3.0
33963
3.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
The fallout from this could have dire consequences. A lot of people, already placing Metallica at the best seat in the house at the Last Chance Saloon have now called last orders
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3.0
34152
3.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Lulu is a complete failure on every tangible and intangible level of its existence
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2.5
34318
2.5 |
A.V. Club
Not merely a failure, but one of the bravest, most fascinating failures in rock history
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2.0
34345
2.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
A joyless mess, a grim, humorless record
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2.0
34414
2.0 |
Entertainment.ie
At no point during this record is anything presented to the listener that is digestible, let alone good
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2.0
34493
2.0 |
Blurt
Self-indulgent, not especially well thought out and often pointless
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1.0
34285
1.0 |
Pitchfork
Audacious to the extreme, but exhaustingly tedious as a result, its few interesting ideas are stretched out beyond the point of utility and pounded into submission-- the average song length clocks in at eight excruciating minutes
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1.0
34204
1.0 |
PopMatters
May be the most disappointing album in a decade
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1.0
34027
1.0 |
God Is In The TV
Lulu is a profoundly depressing, hideously self-indulgent, staggeringly infantile and totally unforgivable mess that was somehow produced by grown-ass men. Everyone involved should be banned from recording, should never be allowed to sell another gig ticket, and should, above all else, be ashamed
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1.0
33959
1.0 |
The Quietus
Not only is Lulu the worst thing any of the players have been involved in, it's quite possibly a candidate for one of the worst albums ever made
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