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10.0
1726
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Daily Telegraph
Grey Britain is shocking – too shocking, doubtless, for most tastes. For its intended youth demographic, however, not to mention a fair few erstwhile spiky-tops, it will be the most exciting album in many moons.
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9.0
1729
9.0 |
The Observer
Their noise and nihilism are tempered by anthemic choruses and inspired musical curveball... Perversely life-affirming stuff.
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8.0
1727
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The music rockets from intentionally rudimentary knuckle-whiteners to ambitious-of-design affairs that reconfigure one’s opinions on a band previously seen as a straight-up hardcore act.
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8.0
1733
8.0 |
Clash
It’s as daunting as swine flu gnawing through your grandma’s heart like a juicy Christmas lunch.
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6.0
1728
6.0 |
The Guardian
It's not like they intended to win over Lady GaGa fans with their scantily clad synth-pop, but ended up making a unremittingly gruesome prog-punk album by mistake.
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6.0
1730
6.0 |
NME
‘Grey Britain’ has important things to say, but due to the lack of any direction or mission, it allows itself to be eaten up by the anger that fuels it.
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6.0
1731
6.0 |
The Quietus
No noble failure this, more of a slightly missed opportunity. Grey Britain is enough of a blast to remind people why Gallows are important to so many, but not quite the focused wrench it could have been.
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5.0
1732
5.0 |
PopMatters
Trimmed down to a good 35-40 minutes, and with a producer like Kurt Ballou instead of the more polished-sounding Garth Richardson, this might have been the provocative, inflammatory second record that Gallows fans had hoped for. Instead we’re left with yet another young band whose reach far exceeds its grasp
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