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8.0
40881
8.0 |
NME
This is despair with a backbeat, and punk as it should be: courageously self-destructive
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7.5
40882
7.5 |
A.V. Club
Whether they can sustain this level of rawness and passion is yet to be seen, but what’s most notable is that the music is just real mindless fun to listen to
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7.0
42009
7.0 |
BBC
They uphold their legacy to a greater degree than you might expect. Sonically speaking, at least
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6.0
40880
6.0 |
musicOMH
As opening statements go, Better Living is comprehensive and, as a hardcore punk album, it is extremely successful
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6.0
41596
6.0 |
Uncut
Flats look to be stranded between hipster grunge and true hardcore. Print edition only
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6.0
40883
6.0 |
The Fly
Raw, exhilarating and completely mystifying
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4.0
40884
4.0 |
Q
Those who'll want to listen to it more than twice are surely few. Print edition only
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4.0
40887
4.0 |
Mojo
Flats recall the time when melody seemed bourgeois and energy was the most valued commodity. Print edition only
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4.0
42459
4.0 |
DIY
Flats aren’t far off being the biggest cliché around and could easily be nominated to fight Towers of London in a contest to be punk’s greatest disappointment
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4.0
42791
4.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Flats began as a mod-bashing British hardcore band – now they’re an everything-bashing, doomy metal group
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