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10.0
55318
10.0 |
Art Rocker
With this seemingly secretive music a fabulous record has been made
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9.0
55344
9.0 |
Bowlegs
No longer skimming along the surface of things, to listen to this makes me feel like I’m diving the depths of my imagination again
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9.0
55407
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
These songs elicit our full attention, they shut out emails and alarms and reminders and straight-up hijack your emotional amphitheatre
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9.0
55475
9.0 |
musicOMH
The music on Field Of Reeds is certainly not easily accessible but, at its heart, this is a supremely evocative album
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9.0
55597
9.0 |
All Music
The most challenging title in their catalog and also the most groundbreaking
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9.0
57126
9.0 |
Fact
There’s one adjective that fits Field of Reeds more than any other, and that is ‘beautiful’. It’s really, really beautiful
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8.5
55567
8.5 |
The Quietus
A rich, complex album that, similarly, rewards both the grand overview and close attention, and offers up fresh details, insights and emotions with each listen
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8.4
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8.4 |
Pitchfork
The spareness and sense of space on Field of Reeds is remarkable, the kind that'll make you glance over your shoulder as beguiling mercury-slicked glows slip into an overwhelming, sometimes vicious sense of anxiety
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8.0
55317
8.0 |
The Skinny
Its lofty ambitions and experiments are tempered by a melodiousness that transcends any accusations of it being a purely academic exercise
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8.0
56153
8.0 |
Mojo
A startlingly listenable proposition. Print edition only
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8.0
55588
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
‘Field of Reeds’ is These New Puritans’ least commercial record to date, taking ‘Hiddens’’s boisterous fascination with DIY orchestrations to a place more serene yet ominous
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8.0
55542
8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
It's that rare thing: an album that will reward repeated listening by drip-feeding you its secrets
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8.0
55490
8.0 |
The Guardian
Every note is recorded with such painstaking attention to resonance that even the musicians' breathing feels integral
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8.0
55495
8.0 |
The Irish Times
The odd concoction of sounds and shapes takes some absorption and occasionally drifts into self-indulgence. But when it works, These New Puritans seem like a truly exciting band
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8.0
55501
8.0 |
DIY
Imagination runs riot and gets away with every daring feat, each one more foolish than the previous
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8.0
55417
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
While it isn’t pretty, cute, comfortable or enlightening music, Field of Reeds is important, resonant, serious and very very clever
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8.0
55319
8.0 |
Uncut
Further evidence that they're out there on their own
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8.0
55320
8.0 |
Q
Beautifully muted yet murkily enticing. Print edition only
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7.7
56047
7.7 |
Beats Per Minute
It’s a record smart enough to know the limitations its setup presents, and instead fiddles with permutations and combinations to achieve these ends
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7.5
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7.5 |
The 405
It's certainly flawed, but it's completely arresting where it does succeed ; it's comfortably the most fascinating release of the year so far
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7.0
55315
7.0 |
Clash
For TNP converts this will no doubt be regarded as a masterpiece. But for the casual listener, it’s simply another solid 21st century ambient record
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7.0
56050
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Listening to Field of Reeds sometimes feels like taking a test and forgetting everything you thought you studied for
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6.0
55316
6.0 |
Time Out
Just occasionally things feel a little too austere and one-paced – what feels delightfully complex and ambitious to some might seem a little forbidding to others
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6.0
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6.0 |
NME
Lauding Field Of Reeds for its scale, scope and ambition is a doozy. Loving it like you loved Hidden though? Not so easy
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Independent
Poised on the cusp of indie and classical, there is a laborious, tortuous formality about songs
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6.0
55551
6.0 |
The Observer
Another challenging but ultimately rewarding listen
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