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Sub-Lingual Tablet

The Fall

Sub-Lingual Tablet

31st studio album from Mark E Smith's legendary post-punk outfit

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Cherry Red
UK Release date
11/05/2015
US Release date
09/06/2015
  1. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Easily the best since 2007's Reformation Post TLC
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  2. 8.0 |   The FT

    Spidery riffs look back to the band’s 1980s heyday while Korg synthesiser melodies blossom like the wayward fruit of krautrock
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  3. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    The "anti-musical" contents are head-smashingly great, as well as head-smashingly demanding. It's like nothing else in music
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    It’s mighty good, the most on-message Fall album since The Infotainment Scan. Rejoice-ah. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    In terms of coherence, it’s quite possibly their best LP since Imperial Wax Solvent
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  6. 8.0 |   NME

    Finds The Fall continuing to mine their seam of proto-rock'n'roll influences
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  7. 8.0 |   All Music

    A well-rounded and surprisingly busy album
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  8. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Sub-Lingual Tablet is this incarnation of The Fall’s most impressive addition to the band’s canon
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  9. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Each new album is an addition to their previous work, and to judge in isolation is perhaps of limited value as a result
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  10. 6.0 |   The Quietus

    Sub-Lingual Tablet seems intended as an acerbic swipe at how social media and the internet relates to music, but much of the attack is blunted by just how stuck they are - The Fall's obstinacy is starting to feel like less of a virtue
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  11. 6.0 |   Q

    Powered by enough energy and spark to burn through any reservations. Print edition only

  12. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Predictable and surprising in almost equal measure
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  13. 6.0 |   Pitchfork

    The Fall are nobody's idea of a pop band, but Smith has always understood the value of a big hook, something you can grab and swing on while the ground below crumbles
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  14. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    There’s nothing wrong with anything on Tablet, simply that Smith has been doing the same thing for so long that one starts to wonder what he might be able to do if he set his sights a little higher
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