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8.0
36442
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Although even the most studious of listener’s attention will wane momentarily throughout, Clay Class is nonetheless a class act. Understated, sloth-like and quick-witted all at once. An exercise in excellence, with one hand tied behind its back
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8.0
36444
8.0 |
Mojo
Finds Prinz and Horn suffusing their brutally blasted musical landscape with enough human warmth to beguile a new and less austere constituency. Print edition only
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7.0
36443
7.0 |
Bowlegs
We like it – maybe not as much as the debut – but we like it
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7.0
37133
7.0 |
Prefix
Prinzhorn Dance School have made the same album two times in a row, but that would ignore the added intimacy, the hookier tracks, and the warmer sentiments that pop up every now and again
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7.0
37151
7.0 |
The Quietus
There's now a warmth which implies that the sardonic posture of the first album was untenable
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7.0
37353
7.0 |
Pitchfork
Presents familiarly despairing scenes of "granite-gray" skies and "concrete hinterlands," while the band's instrumental economy extends to the songwriting
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7.0
37368
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
The straightforward dance-y quality of much of their last album is replaced instead by a lithe slinkiness here, a sweet tottering there. But rather than losing any consistency, the fluidity of form builds a richer world
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7.0
37580
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Clay Class is nearly an indie classic. All that's missing are tunes—not quite enough of those bits
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7.0
38605
7.0 |
PopMatters
Prinzhorn’s one-of-a-kind sound has an admirable consistency to it, even if the pony becomes a little one-trick after a while
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7.0
38955
7.0 |
hhv.de mag
The production is so incredibly dirty that you have to ask yourself, whether there isn’t actually magic involved
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6.0
37170
6.0 |
The Irish Times
There’s precedent for their approach in the work of PiL, Wire and Gang of Four, but it’s to the pair’s credit that Clay Class doesn’t become an exercise in pastiche
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6.0
36445
6.0 |
Uncut
Increasingly their affectless irony bleeds into anger. Print edition only
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4.5
37076
4.5 |
Beats Per Minute
What we have here is an album that’s pretty good during its first half and pretty insufferable during its second
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4.0
36446
4.0 |
Q
43 minutes of joyless hectoring becomes an endurance test. Print edition only
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4.0
37290
4.0 |
State
An album crammed with long, protracted crescendos that flat line before reaching the expected climax
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