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9.0
52407
9.0 |
All Music
An album that demands multiple journeys through the wardrobe, only this time it's to fully take in the album's melodic depths rather than to make sense of its technical achievements
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8.0
52408
8.0 |
BBC
By parts playful, dizzying, cloud-busting and, perhaps more so than ever before, serious
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8.0
52149
8.0 |
NME
Whether she's playing loser or victor, the swathes of frenetic energy that buoy every note are always present
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8.0
52374
8.0 |
Spin
Part of the suspense with her old songs was whether or not they'd fall apart before she finished them. You could knock a door down with these
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8.0
52112
8.0 |
The 405
Marnie Stern has thrilled us for years with her fretwork and charming rock. None of that has changed here
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8.0
52113
8.0 |
The Fly
Unexpected vocal hooks and snatches of melody, which sweetens her noisy math-rock brew
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8.0
52115
8.0 |
The Skinny
The cleaner aesthetic may shed a fan or two, but Stern’s set to replace them with a whole heap more
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8.0
52212
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
A set of siren songs that are as beguiling as they are confrontational
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8.0
52239
8.0 |
DIY
The sort of album you want to place in a velvet lined box and present to everyone who visits. It's loveable, thrilling and properly innovative
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8.0
52240
8.0 |
Bowlegs
A fantastical album, a shimmery, vibrant affair. It certainly seems that all is well in the creative world of Marnia
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8.0
52396
8.0 |
musicOMH
Stern’s best album yet – at just over half an hour, it’s a short, sharp shock to the system which contains some of Stern’s best songs to date
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8.0
52401
8.0 |
Pitchfork
Where she often used to shriek, now she sometimes sighs, and the frantic, start-stop quality of her early songs has given way to something more like a swoon
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8.0
52487
8.0 |
The Guardian
This is joyous, hurtling guitar glory – Stern's brilliant paean to survival
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8.0
52758
8.0 |
Beats Per Minute
Assures you that great things can come to those who aren’t afraid to work for it, including the listener
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8.0
52812
8.0 |
No Ripcord
Every weird twist and turn on The Chronicles of Marnia sounds like the work of a musician so effortlessly absorbed in her craft, so attuned to the expressive qualities of her music
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8.0
52878
8.0 |
Uncut
Undoubtedly something special. Print edition only
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8.0
52903
8.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Stern’s most buoyant work
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7.6
52414
7.6 |
Paste Magazine
Stern’s most direct and approachable album yet
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7.5
52116
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It’s just too positive and vibrant an album to even momentarily abhor with any conviction
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7.5
52114
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
She’s going to continue spurting out 3-minute mission statements that never overstay their welcome—a pretty spectacular feat for an artist whose specialty is shredding
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7.0
52133
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The changes from album to album amount to a refinement of the sound; a willingness to use more space, and more rests, to let this or that idea sink in
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7.0
52305
7.0 |
Slant Magazine
Its combination of traditional rock-guitar power chords and cheerleader pop certainly has the potential to win Stern some new admirers
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7.0
52450
7.0 |
PopMatters
Puzzling and complicated, and delves into those gray areas without batting an eye
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7.0
52377
7.0 |
Under The Radar
No one embodies—or aspires to—"epic" quite like Marnie Stern
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7.0
52646
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
This New York singer-guitarist's records keep getting more nuanced and revealing, without losing a hint of the radiantly hyper finger-picking energy
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6.0
52191
6.0 |
Q
As a guitarist, she's something else. Print edition only
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5.8
52369
5.8 |
A.V. Club
It never quite transcends into the thrilling mess that is such a good vehicle for her talents
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5.0
52477
5.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Our favorite indie shredder’s efforts to make her brand of math rock marketable have instead rendered them sterile
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