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9.0
285
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PopMatters
The album proves that there’s still new ground to be explored in rock, and BLK JKS may be at the forefront of this exploration.
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8.0
286
8.0 |
The Guardian
A hugely creative, expansive and forceful piece of work
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8.0
291
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
When it's at its best, After Roberts harbours a brave sense of adventurism, a fearless experimentalism. And yes, it can sound like a million other things. But more often that not, it's just the glorious sound of nothing else.
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8.0
292
8.0 |
No Ripcord
Ably showcases the talents of BLK JKS, their world-influenced musical hybrid a unique presence in an industry dangerously close to being oversaturated with no longer distinctive hipsters spouting tra la la’s.
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8.0
293
8.0 |
NME
Print edition only
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8.0
294
8.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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8.0
295
8.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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8.0
5768
8.0 |
Uncut
Print edition only
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8.0
283
8.0 |
Spin
...epic centerpiece “Kwa Nqingetje” reimagines OK Computer if it had been unwittingly downloaded by teens in a Johannesburg township. Let the mythologizing begin
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7.0
282
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
BLK JKS' best moments are roaring fusions — South African-style chants laid over Lindani Buthelezi's scorched-earth guitar leads and Tshepang Ramoba's amazingly busy drumming
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7.0
287
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musicOMH
An impressive, attention-grabbing debut. Noisy and chaotic, passionate-sounding, complicated and confusing as it is, it nevertheless emerges as something a bit more than the sum of its manifold parts.
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7.0
288
7.0 |
The Observer
Sounds and musical ambitions cohere into something intelligible and thoroughly powerful. It's exhilarating, if bewildering stuff.
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7.0
289
7.0 |
Clash
The band incorporate the blisteringly complex rhythms and language of their native South Africa... to paint a muddled portrait that belies their ferocious live show.
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6.2
284
6.2 |
Pitchfork
This is a strange band, one minute rivaling the Mars Volta in bombast, the next prettily strumming about like Vampire Weekend's bolder, authenticated friends
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6.0
290
6.0 |
Daily Telegraph
Energy and dynamism carries them through.
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