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The Digital Fix
In how it captures both the guttural and the cerebral, it achieves a deep and lasting resonance. Awash with ideas, Canines speaks at length and with authority. Listen. And learn
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9.0
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God Is In The TV
Canines shows Shrag as a gang out on a rampage
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8.0
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musicOMH
This is the record Shrag have been threatening to make for nearly a decade
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8.0
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NME
Bucking the trend of many a fast-imploding lo-fi press darling, Shrag come out with fists swinging on their third LP. There’s some palpable songwriting muscle on show right from the off
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All Music
Shrag have taken an exciting step forward with Canines, which considering how good their previous record Life! Death! Prizes! was, makes it a truly impressive achievement
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BBC
This is a band that subverts expectations. And, in doing so, bring us something altogether more complex and interesting
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8.0
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8.0 |
The Quietus
They’ve stuck their head over the indie-parapet with a record that is both confident and accomplished, and that, dear reader, is no mere trifle. Heartily recommended
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7.0
44563
7.0 |
Uncut
Sets their wiry intelligence to work on familiar pop subjects such as desire, desolation and dependency. Print edition only
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Drowned In Sound
With a bit more TLC and fine tuning around the edges, their piece de resistance may well be just around the corner. Promisingly steadfast
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7.0
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7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
For all its inner thematic explorations this album still only scratches at the skin of what Shrag are capable of. Once they bare more than their teeth, they will become as fierce as they have the potential to be
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7.0
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7.0 |
DIY
Shrag have gotten to that exciting stage of being a band where they don't sound like quite so much like a mish-mash of their favourite bands; they simply sound like Shrag
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