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10.0
44094
10.0 |
Art Rocker
As dramatic, urgent and chaotic a collection of music as the Boston band have ever recorded
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9.0
44435
9.0 |
The Quietus
Mission Of Burma are excellent, their new album is equally excellent, and an easy contender for best rock album of the year has been made by a group who formed over 30 years ago
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9.0
43593
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
With their legacy already secured MoB didn’t even have to come back and make any more records, but in creating Unsound they’ve just gone and made one of the albums of 2012
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9.0
43845
9.0 |
The Fly
The desire to keep pushing themselves is clear, audible and utterly thrilling
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9.0
43924
9.0 |
All Music
One of the most exciting and eye-opening albums they've made to date
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8.2
43714
8.2 |
Paste Magazine
The sound of a band that takes the same painstaking approach as they did three decades ago
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8.0
43734
8.0 |
NME
Shames bands half their age
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8.0
43592
8.0 |
musicOMH
Mission Of Burma have never stopped sounding vital, never stopped making music that provokes, challenges, empowers, enrages and amuses in equal measure
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8.0
43648
8.0 |
Uncut
Post-punk legends continue their fruitful second coming. Print edition only
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8.0
43594
8.0 |
The Skinny
One of their finest releases to date
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8.0
43595
8.0 |
Bowlegs
Similar to their transatlantic post-punk counterparts in Wire, Mission of Burma write records thirty years after the movement’s cultural peak that do not tire
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8.0
43620
8.0 |
Mojo
Sound as electrifying, as curious and as awake as they ever have. Print edition only
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8.0
43992
8.0 |
Spin
The post-punks continue to make up for a two-decade hiatus with top-notch new signals, calls, and marches
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8.0
43856
8.0 |
DIY
It’s one of the best rock albums of the year and shows there’s no age limit on kicking up dust and splitting ear drums
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8.0
43882
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
A reunion that’s truly one in a million
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8.0
44196
8.0 |
Blurt
Sounds like the place where we finally catch up with the backstory and start moving ahead, and I can't wait to hear what happens next
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8.0
43808
8.0 |
The Guardian
This exuberant fifth album again shows they're still a force to be reckoned with, while stretching their tuneful, time-signature-shifting style ever further
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7.7
43957
7.7 |
Pitchfork
Even when they stretch, their musical personality is so strong that they end up further confirming their consistency
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7.0
44027
7.0 |
No Ripcord
Unsound is an album that rewards close listens, even more so than previous efforts. It’s easy to ignore what’s going on in the background of these tracks and get caught up in the strong riffs, but the songs will blur together if you do
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7.0
43787
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
They’ve made much of a new approach to writing on Unsound, but the results prove that once a style is entrenched in the artist, even new methods lead them to the same conclusion. Fortunately, with that style comes quality
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7.0
44040
7.0 |
Under The Radar
The key to their recent success has been in finding ways to keep their sound fresh
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7.0
44530
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Unsound booms with veteran heat and chops
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6.7
43910
6.7 |
A.V. Club
Where the previous comeback albums have roared, Unsound feels dull, uneven, and a little bored
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6.0
44034
6.0 |
PopMatters
While the overall effect of Unsound doesn’t herald something new—it won’t foreshadow another Sonic Youth as Vs.’s “New Nails” is said to have done—and it too often feels like it is looking in the rear view mirror and previous glories
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6.0
43630
6.0 |
Q
Bostonian post-punk legends do not go quietly. Print edition only
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