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8.5
82974
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
They’re self-flagellating, self-sabotaging, self-deprecating nihilists. And they’re here to scream it, six inches from your face
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8.5
83291
8.5 |
Art Rocker
It’s possibly the year’s first leering masterpiece
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8.0
83038
8.0 |
NME
The majority of this 46-minute album is gripping, a sickening start to the year that makes Saul’s temporary departure all the more understandable
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8.0
82989
8.0 |
Mojo
This Family album goes towards capturing the band’s undeniable genius, in music that lingers like the most terrifying dream. Print edition only
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8.0
82979
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
A rare breed of record that's both of its time yet timeless in nature
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7.0
82975
7.0 |
Clash
Fat White Family prove that despite the co-opting of rock and roll into the establishment there’s still bite in the old dog yet
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7.0
82978
7.0 |
The Music
It's like an occult movie where you know something terrible is happening just out of focus, but you don't know what it is
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6.3
82972
6.3 |
Pitchfork
Fat White Family’s notorious live shows prove that they’ve got the brains and the insanity to make a carnal, carnivalesque classic, but Songs for Our Mothers doesn’t come close to that energy
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6.0
82973
6.0 |
The Quietus
A decent recording budget seems to have done justice to Saul Adamczewski's gift for arrangements
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6.0
82985
6.0 |
Evening Standard
The murky disco of Whitest Boy on the Beach is one of the band’s jauntier tunes – but this album mostly sounds like a bad dream
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6.0
82987
6.0 |
Uncut
Morbidly compelling but in the wrong mood it's a bit of a trudge. Print edition only
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6.0
82988
6.0 |
Q
In building a monolith of grot in their own image, Songs For Mothers is gruesomely successful. Print edition only
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6.0
82977
6.0 |
The Guardian
Fat White Family clearly think rock music needs a bomb putting under it, and they’ve got a point. Yet Songs for Our Mothers feels like a bomb that only partially detonates
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6.0
83374
6.0 |
NOW
It starts off hookily enough with the dancey Whitest Boy On The Beach and the Sean Lennon-co-produced Satisfied, before quickly slipping into middling lethargy
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6.0
83256
6.0 |
The Observer
The five-piece most impress at their least confrontational
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5.0
83020
5.0 |
musicOMH
Something of a mixed bag...their edge has been knocked off in a cloud of reverb
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3.0
83515
3.0 |
No Ripcord
In some instances, the juxtaposition of horrific subject matter with calculated soundscapes is ominously unsettling, but for the most part just bores you to tears
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3.0
83063
3.0 |
Crack
The whole shtick leaves a foul taste
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2.0
82976
2.0 |
DIY
There’s no light to shine, no tales to be told and no ground to be broken. Nothing to see here
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