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8.0
43795
8.0 |
Q
These 12 tracks represent The View's most fully-formed offering to date. Print edition only
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7.0
43798
7.0 |
NME
Their creative fire is kindling once again
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7.0
44166
7.0 |
BBC
The new album title is ironic ... this is more of a grown-up View
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6.0
43895
6.0 |
The Scotsman
The View should settle for having their boisterous mojo back once more before trying to go all epic on us
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6.0
43797
6.0 |
Uncut
A moderately successful overhaul. Print edition only
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6.0
43852
6.0 |
The Observer
Cheeky for a Reason is unadorned lad-rock, its terrace-friendly singalongs pitched between Slade and the Libertines stripped of the self-mythology
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6.0
43875
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
Hats off to The View - the critics may have abandoned them, but they don't care. They're just having the time of their lives
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6.0
43774
6.0 |
The Guardian
Just interesting enough to tide them over until guitars come back into fashion
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6.0
43775
6.0 |
Evening Standard
Cheeky for a Reason actually has greater potential for mainstream appeal than their early post-Libertines scuzziness
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5.0
43884
5.0 |
DIY
Kyle Falconer knows how to write catchy songs and it’s a shame that a lot of the very simple yet ear-pleasing melodies drift into wishy washy indie sound
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5.0
44917
5.0 |
PopMatters
If this had been their debut, back in the mid-‘00s, it would have been lauded it as a spirited release that shows promise for the future, but the world has moved on and cartoonish, anthemic, indie pop is no longer the musical vanguard
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4.0
44497
4.0 |
State
There are some decent tracks to be found here but the album lacks any real inspiration or imagination
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4.0
44650
4.0 |
God Is In The TV
Feels like The View by numbers
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4.0
43773
4.0 |
Clash
The View are cheeky for a reason - it hides a distinct lack of inspiration
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4.0
43796
4.0 |
Mojo
If The View are a hangover from the 2000s indie boom, this could be the album-shaped Alka-Seltzer to end it all. Print edition only
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4.0
43812
4.0 |
The Irish Times
Without any new ideas, The View’s long-term outlook is increasingly bleak
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4.0
43825
4.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Unlike recent lad-rock casualties The Enemy, The View possess a certain degree of musical competence – the weakest tracks here might be ultimately forgettable, but they're melodic enough to always be hummable
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4.0
43849
4.0 |
The Independent
A series of routine punky-pop exercises is occasionally salvaged by their spirit and winning way with melody
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