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8.0
64296
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Stylish, daring and captivating; spooky, but not scary
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8.0
64313
8.0 |
The Music
Tare has allowed this album to get a little weirder, darker and stranger than previous efforts
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8.0
64321
8.0 |
Mojo
The album''s stand-outs come when they soften their stance. Print edition only
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8.0
64351
8.0 |
DIY
This delight of an album might bend and warp reality, but it’s also a rare gem because underneath all of its trickery it still projects back a reflection of something completely grounded
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8.0
64353
8.0 |
The Independent
Both musically and lyrically, the project cleaves to that kind of silly-spooky, funfair innocence, in a way that lends the album a freakish, cartoon unity denied to some of Tare’s previous projects
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8.0
64522
8.0 |
FasterLouder
While so many bands are looking backwards for inspiration, Slasher Flicks are looking sideways and within: always reacting to each other, always wildly askew
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7.9
64492
7.9 |
Paste Magazine
If you’re a fan of Animal Collective and previous Avey Tare efforts, then you’ll surely embrace the unconventionalities on display
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7.5
64437
7.5 |
The 405
It would be a shame if people just viewed this as an Animal Collective side project, as there is plenty to investigate here
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7.3
64451
7.3 |
Pitchfork
Slasher House actually becomes a lot less inviting in those moments where it lays on the carnivalistic clamor and shock tactics too thick
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7.0
64463
7.0 |
NME
This is one house of horrors that’s worth the ride
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7.0
64466
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
These 11 songs feel like a natural extension of Animal Collective's sound
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7.0
64298
7.0 |
Clash
Flickers of spooky dynamism never feel more than a random séance. Enjoyable, but some’ll always believe in it more than others
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7.0
64320
7.0 |
Uncut
Not so different to the last Animal Collective album. Print edition only
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7.0
64433
7.0 |
All Music
It's overflowing with excitement, optimism, and overwhelming beauty that distract you just enough to disregard the sounds of rustling footsteps behind you growing closer
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7.0
64742
7.0 |
Fact
A suite of songs that’s at times alien, other times sentimental; often cutesy, but a little too bristly to curl up with under a blanket
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6.8
64529
6.8 |
Earbuddy
As usual, there is creativity in abundance, but it sometimes feels like it is being misplaced amongst the overarching thematic tropes
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6.7
64425
6.7 |
Pretty Much Amazing
It’s a lark of an album, to be enjoyed in small doses rather than on repeat
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6.5
64641
6.5 |
Under The Radar
A fairly successful recreation of the sheer joy experienced in the intentionally macabre. It's a little silly sometimes, but who's going to fault anyone for that?
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6.0
64571
6.0 |
The Irish Times
It’s loaded with trippy, wobbly and indecently exposed twists and turns of the jazzy, post-rocky, occasionally proggy variety
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6.0
64359
6.0 |
The Observer
Passable enough, leftfield indie
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6.0
64452
6.0 |
PopMatters
Suffers the same problem as Centipede Hz. Each song is fried in a large vat of production grease and because everything is in such excess, it’s an exhausting listen to get to the end
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6.0
64322
6.0 |
Q
Amps up the heavily saturated, kaleidoscopic melodies. Print edition only
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6.0
64330
6.0 |
Drowned In Sound
For all his talk of trying to create something more uplifting than Down There, Enter The Slasher House sounds like a direct sequel to his swampy solo album, and wrongly marginalises the influences of his collaborators
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6.0
64297
6.0 |
musicOMH
Sadly falls just short of Animal Collective’s best work and Panda Bear’s stunning solo projects
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6.0
64295
6.0 |
The List
While Enter The Slasher House feels like a bit like a missed opportunity, there are still tracks on here that could sit comfortably in Animal Collective’s impressive canon
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5.8
64524
5.8 |
Consequence Of Sound
It rarely reaches the actual darkness of his past solo material that explored the horrors of real life, nor their cartoon-y brain-warp
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5.5
64697
5.5 |
Beardfood
In the thickest parts of Slasher House’s screeching repetitions, the line between ‘difficult’ and ‘unbearable’ gets mighty thin
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4.0
64294
4.0 |
The Skinny
There’s simply too much going on for the album to be digestible – the vocals too affected, the drumming too intense, the keyboards swallowed by effects. Come back out of the swamp, Dave
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