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9.0
85836
9.0 |
Loud And Quiet
Back on ‘Mug Museum’, Le Bon found herself preoccupied with some pretty heavy stuff. By comparison, then, ‘Crab Day’ can sound like a proverbial day at the beach – or perhaps the rock pools
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9.0
86070
9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Her atypical approach to song craft, while only subtly evident in her early, folkier days, has evolved with every album, and as a result, Crab Day is her most playful record to date
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8.1
85923
8.1 |
Pitchfork
Crab Day is a voyage into doubt led by a queasy compass, and a ringleader who's prepared to stake out uncertain territory
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8.0
85837
8.0 |
The Skinny
Yields an emotional resonance that is difficult to deny and impossible to resist
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8.0
85839
8.0 |
Uncut
Weird pop fantasia from the Nico of West Wales. Print edition only
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8.0
85872
8.0 |
The Arts Desk
Any track is as good as another and each song is a fully formed gem
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8.0
85964
8.0 |
The Guardian
Long may Le Bon continue to weird up the rulebook
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8.0
86019
8.0 |
DIY
In ‘Crab Day’, her tilted ear for expression continues to rule the roost, with her compositions only growing more dissonant
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8.0
86022
8.0 |
The FT
Full of sideways feints, a scuttling game of hide-and-seek
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8.0
87197
8.0 |
PopMatters
Cate Le Bon shows the true extent of her powerfully versatile creative voice on Crab Day
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7.5
87557
7.5 |
Earbuddy
The follow-up to the excellent Mug Museum is just as good, but stranger and hairier.
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7.5
85838
7.5 |
The 405
An idiosyncratic and imaginative record, with fresh highlights appearing on every listen
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7.0
85835
7.0 |
musicOMH
She over-eggs the pudding occasionally, but that’s a small price to pay for adventure
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7.0
85850
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
She doesn’t go for dramatic shifts in tempo or tones, which makes subtle additions more obvious
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7.0
85956
7.0 |
All Music
Le Bon's clever and often abstract turns of both melody and phrase are abundant throughout
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7.0
86097
7.0 |
Under The Radar
There are moments of overt post-punk motifs ("What's Not Mine"), swirling psychedelia ("Find Me"), and even nods to a more primal singer/songwriter blueprint scattered across Crab Day
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7.0
86295
7.0 |
Gig Soup
Its best songs are downright masterful, with their epileptic shifts in colour and tone. Sadly, the album can be labouring and obnoxious at points
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6.7
85935
6.7 |
Consequence Of Sound
At times she reaches new, fantastic heights, all while staying true to what’s made Le Bon so bewitching in the past
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6.0
85939
6.0 |
God Is In The TV
Sometimes its a bloody uncomfortable place to be: the sound of an artist exploring new terrains while falling apart in front of our ears. Its a curious oddity indeed
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6.0
85840
6.0 |
Q
It’s defiantly idiosyncratic and at times genuinely bonkers. Print edition only
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6.0
85841
6.0 |
Mojo
Lo Bon’s atonal voice can be testing - but something this time has changed. Print edition only
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6.0
86025
6.0 |
The Observer
A wonderfully disordered junkshop of a record and a pleasure to explore
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6.0
86245
6.0 |
NME
Dusty, muted organs hum like prog antiques, making the sort of noises that unrecognisable woodland creatures used to make on 1970s children’s television
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6.0
87263
6.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Sounds more in tune with 1967 than 2016
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4.0
86241
4.0 |
The Music
Angular at its best, alienating at its worst, forgettable it is not
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