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Aufheben

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Aufheben

Neo psychedelia and Krautrock flavoured alt.rock on the 12th album from bandleader Anton Newcombe, recorded in East Berlin with a cast of session musicians

ADM rating[?]

6.9

Label
a Records
UK Release date
30/04/2012
US Release date
01/05/2012
  1. 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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  2. 8.0 |   NME

    His best album since 2003's And This is Our Music
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  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Adventurous and totally mesmerising. Print edition only

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Aufheben may not be vintage BJM but it's still pretty groovy stuff
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  7. 7.0 |   Bowlegs

    Their best record in years
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 6.3 |   Pitchfork

    The band's most consistent, welcoming, and sonically lustrous album in years
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  15. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Ignore the arch titles and you'll find some lovely psych pastiches. Print edition only

  16. 6.0 |   Q

    Continues their ceaseless quest to make the perfect drug music. Print edition only

  17. 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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