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9.0
42600
9.0 |
No Ripcord
Better integrating the world-music interests boasted on 2010’s Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? to BJM’s classic retro-futurist rock tendencies, Newcombe has constructed his most level-headed and consistently engaging record since …And This Is Our Music back in 2003
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8.0
40968
8.0 |
NME
His best album since 2003's And This is Our Music
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8.0
41023
8.0 |
Mojo
Adventurous and totally mesmerising. Print edition only
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7.0
41050
7.0 |
The Fly
Newcombe again proves his unerring knack for creating holistic records (there’s no big-hitter here), with a transfixing, all-enveloping fug
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7.0
41115
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Beyond the self-destruction, BJM have always produced great songs. That’s why they are still going strong after 20-odd years
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7.0
41119
7.0 |
musicOMH
Aufheben may not be vintage BJM but it's still pretty groovy stuff
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7.0
41194
7.0 |
Bowlegs
Their best record in years
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7.0
41222
7.0 |
Under The Radar
It seems as if Brian Jonestown Massacre is getting better again. And it's nice to hear
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7.0
41240
7.0 |
FasterLouder
Ultimately the kind of affair that is rewarded by repeat spins, if only to marvel at a little something you missed before
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7.0
40965
7.0 |
Rave Magazine
The album falls back into a haze of slowly strummed acoustic guitars and dreamy mellotrons. This would only be frustrating if they didn’t do ‘trippy raga-themed jams’ so well
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7.0
40967
7.0 |
A.V. Club
More of the same; not quite of the high standard the band are capable of at their best (Methadrone, Thank God for Mental Illness), but as enjoyable as they’ve ever been
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7.0
40995
7.0 |
Prefix
Anton and the gang are treading carefully, taking tentative steps into the nauseating whirlpool of the ever-shifting neo-psychedelia
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7.0
41002
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
With each effort, BJM continue a transcendence from their early days feigning the swagger of their namesake’s band toward a more complex realization
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6.3
40966
6.3 |
Pitchfork
The band's most consistent, welcoming, and sonically lustrous album in years
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6.0
40969
6.0 |
Uncut
Ignore the arch titles and you'll find some lovely psych pastiches. Print edition only
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6.0
40970
6.0 |
Q
Continues their ceaseless quest to make the perfect drug music. Print edition only
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6.0
41768
6.0 |
PopMatters
Stands as one of the ensemble’s most experimental, yes, but in that sense, it might end up considered something of a novelty in their discography, an album you put on to relax to and float away with more than anything else
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