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8.5
58825
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
As much as this is a horrific and challenging listen at times, Coming Apart is also an utterly captivating and thrilling record and…whisper it…could end up being the best music she’s ever put her name to
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8.0
58784
8.0 |
PopMatters
It’s as vital a work in the genre as we’re going to hear this year
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8.0
58780
8.0 |
Spin
At no other time in her career has Gordon been so forceful, so in her own power
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8.0
58781
8.0 |
The Quietus
The album unravels slowly, hypnotically
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8.0
59047
8.0 |
The 405
This is one of the most uneasy listens of the year but, for fans of this music, it is essential
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8.0
58900
8.0 |
DIY
Love or loathe their destructive attitude towards convention, ‘Coming Apart’ is an exciting, if extremely strange album
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7.7
58782
7.7 |
Pitchfork
Give Coming Apart a few listens, and distinctive shapes emerge. Eventually, the duo’s dedication to a specific point of view becomes intoxicating
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7.0
58803
7.0 |
Uncut
All of them stick in your head despite little trace of a tune. Print edition only
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7.0
58832
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
At almost 60 years old, Gordon is still pushing the musical envelope, and that in and of itself is something worth celebrating
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7.0
59073
7.0 |
NME
It is done with a pleasing malevolence
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6.0
59090
6.0 |
The Digital Fix
This is ten tracks of improvisational, instrumentally guitar-based drone music, Gordon working with bandmate Bill Nace purely as minimalist sound producers in discordant symbiosis
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6.0
60185
6.0 |
Q
This raw, unsettling album's backstory, rendered through protesting guitars, is what gives it its defiant edge. Print edition only
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6.0
58903
6.0 |
The Fly
Featuring strangled guitar courtesy of Boston avant-garde shredder Bill Nace, by no means is ‘Coming Apart’ a break-up album in the traditional sense
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6.0
58779
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Gordon shows off her signature, muscular vocal quaver, amid plenty of thunderous Sonic Youth-style feedback and guitar creep
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6.0
58809
6.0 |
Mojo
Listeners long attuned to Gordon's avant excurions will find much here that satisfies. Print edition only
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6.0
58783
6.0 |
Time Out
Once you get into it, it’s a rewarding process – and not totally different to listening to Gordon’s old band, either
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