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Success

Album number six from the Winnipeg-based noise rock / post-hardcore trio produced by Steve Albini

ADM rating[?]

6.4

Label
Season Of Mist
UK Release date
15/06/2015
US Release date
16/06/2015
  1. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    There might be a song here entitled Failing At Fun Since 1981, but this album is stupidly good fun and, on top of it all, an unmitigated success
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  2. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    A little anti-social rage never hurt anybody
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  3. 7.5 |   Beardfood

    A flawed, yet powerful album
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  4. 7.0 |   All Music

    It is ultimately successful in how it deals with negativity and frustration, and shows KEN mode displaying grace and maturity with their newly expanded sound
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  5. 6.0 |   The Music

    Some fans may miss joyfully spreadeagling themselves in the audio muck of old, but it’s an evolution of sorts
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  6. 6.0 |   The List

    At its best, Success is potent, fresh and thrillingly noisy, but it’s also heavily front-loaded, making it a victim of its own … well, you know
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  7. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It’s hard to feel it’s anything we haven’t heard before, which makes it far more underwhelming than its generally high quality content suggests it should be
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  8. 5.9 |   Pitchfork

    On Success, KEN mode’s altered musical approach is the only thing more tiring than Matthewson’s broadsides. They’re ensnared by a decade of talking shit they’re no longer equipped to handle
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  9. 5.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Matthewson’s words aren’t as sharp and focused as the best noise rock aggressors, and the thinner instrumentals and production reveal that too clearly
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