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Dark Matter / Dark Energy

Membranes

Dark Matter / Dark Energy

First album since their 2009 reunion from the Blackpool post punk band formed in 1977

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Cherry Red / Metropolis
UK Release date
22/06/2015
US Release date
24/07/2015
  1. 9.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    A taut, madly creative, compelling hour of music that manages to be both cerebral and pile-drivingingly uncompromising in its musical and lyrical attack
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  2. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    It doesn't attempt to be something that it's not and the honesty contained within is one of the album's greatest strengths
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  3. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    The post-punk maxim of “every instrument is the lead instrument” is taken to its next logical extreme here – everything is a rhythm instrument – even the vocals
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    They deliver a most contemporaneous carnival of noise. Print edition only

  5. 7.0 |   NME

    Often brutal in approach, the gut-punch attack of ‘Do The Supernova’ and ‘Space Junk’ would frighten off any extra-terrestrials tuning in
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  6. 6.0 |   Q

    Production values have been upped in the intervening period but rather than smooth out their edges, they only serve to accentuate their fierce, angular approach. Print edition only


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