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8.0
62281
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Fearless, demanding, relentlessly subversive
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8.0
62323
8.0 |
Mojo
With Angela Seo, Stewart has made Xiu Xiu's most difficult yet. Print edition only
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7.5
62357
7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Jamie Stewart once again digs his nails in to the grubby under layer of life, this time perhaps even deeper than before.
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7.5
62695
7.5 |
The 405
At some point you'll come up for air. Clear space after having your ears obliterated by Stewart and Angela Seo's nightmarish glimpse at the darker fringes of life on Earth
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7.5
65343
7.5 |
Under The Radar
The sound of an artist getting back to his best
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7.0
62394
7.0 |
The Quietus
'Angel Guts' operates a scorched-earth policy, reliant on little more than analog synths, outmoded drum machines and Stewart's voice at its most discomforting, his lyrics at their least sympathetic
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7.0
62235
7.0 |
NME
Stewart and musical partner Angela Seo venture further than ever before into realms of horror-soundtrack psychodrama
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6.6
62392
6.6 |
Pitchfork
Angel Guts can occasionally feel like stunt journalism, and you wonder how much skin Stewart has in the game, so to speak
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6.0
62294
6.0 |
DIY
An album trying to survive under the harshest conditions, Angel Guts: Red Classroom is a properly thrilling listen
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6.0
62314
6.0 |
Q
Extremely extreme music from intensely intense duo. Print edition only
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6.0
62236
6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Yet another example that the world needs a guy like Jamie Stewart treating music the way Jamie Stewart does: painfully, harshly, intuitively, and with psychotic aplomb
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6.0
62238
6.0 |
The List
Designed to sound like it comes from a dark, twisted place, but there are enough powerful moments to make it worthwhile trawling through that mire
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6.0
63104
6.0 |
No Ripcord
We’re presented with great shards of material molded out of fear and anger (and a fair dose of playful provocation), and expected to make sense of it all, which is a big ask
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5.0
62239
5.0 |
Uncut
Is by turns darkly unsettling and unintentionally funny. Print edition only
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4.0
62412
4.0 |
PopMatters
This album seems determined to take all the good things Stewart and co. are capable of and tossing them right out the window
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3.0
62237
3.0 |
Loud And Quiet
As always, the bile is dialled up to eleven with the goal seemingly be to simply shock, disorientate and dislocate whoever has the misfortune to play the role of listener
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2.0
62234
2.0 |
The Irish Times
The excruciating squeal of a chainsaw on closing track Red Classroom epitomises this album’s painful, pointless pomposity
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1.7
62419
1.7 |
Consequence Of Sound
Coming from someone who claims to hate violence, Angel Guts: Red Classroom is a surprisingly misanthropic piece of work
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