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10.0
67475
10.0 |
The Digital Fix
This is a resolutely forward-looking project
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9.5
67276
9.5 |
The Quietus
It's a bona fide, solid-as-granite masterpiece
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9.0
67725
9.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Futurology wraps up the ideals of what has come before it, mixed it with their present experience and forged ahead with songs that demonstrate a group with a lot more life in them yet
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8.0
67994
8.0 |
Beardfood
It continues the trend of 80s bands making intelligent, aware records in a modern landscape
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8.0
68355
8.0 |
PopMatters
It’s misleading to say that Futurology is a peverse reaction to a delicate album that preceded it. There’s more at work here than just fast ‘n’ loud
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8.0
67331
8.0 |
Evening Standard
A forward-looking record from a reinvigorated band
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8.0
67342
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Reignited once again, with ‘Futurology’ the Manics have written one of the most interesting chapters in their fascinating and eventful story
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8.0
67436
8.0 |
The Music
Combines a real Euro aesthetic with that signature Manic sound that has made these Welshmen so enduring
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8.0
67260
8.0 |
NME
For all the snarl and snark of the lyrics, though, it’s the songs themselves that are strange compared to anything they’ve done before
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8.0
67261
8.0 |
musicOMH
Every track is quite full of life and holds no lack of energy that characterizes good, classic British rock ‘n’ roll
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8.0
67262
8.0 |
Digital Spy
With their last two albums the band have - while not quite freed from the memories - successfully escaped their history once more
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8.0
67263
8.0 |
Mojo
Brave and unexpected, much is truly magnificent. Print edition only
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8.0
67258
8.0 |
Clash
‘Futurology’ is the Manics doing what they do best, with added Krautrock, Georgia Ruth and Green Gartside. A rum cocktail, indeed
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8.0
67265
8.0 |
Q
With records full of fire and vitality like Futurology, failure is not an option. Print edition only
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8.0
67269
8.0 |
The Guardian
Futurology never feels like a pastiche, and sounds unmistakably like the Manic Street Preachers while sounding unlike any other album they've made
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8.0
67273
8.0 |
The Irish Times
An enthralling collection which sees the band – 12 albums in – ploughing a new furrow and finding new musical vistas
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8.0
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8.0 |
Independent on Sunday
No one would begrudge the Manics the nostalgia quid nowadays, but this is something better: proof that they can still put up a fight. And keep a good story going
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7.5
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7.5 |
Under The Radar
Display a stylistic freedom that one might call reinvention if it didn't still sound just like the Manics
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7.0
67277
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Futurology just happens to be their most daring folly yet
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7.0
67259
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Even in its misfires, Futurology feels liberated from the weight of the band’s legacy
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7.0
67264
7.0 |
Uncut
This is the Manics as you’d want them to be- thrilling, bombastic and sometimes ridiculous, but still raging. Print edition only
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6.0
67325
6.0 |
The Observer
The musical touchstones – Krautrock, Bowie, early Simple Minds – carry more than a whiff of the heritage rock mag subscriber
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