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Basement Jaxx

Scars

Kelis, Yoko Ono, Santigold, and assorted guest stars join the UK dance production duo for their 5th studio album

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6.4

Label
XL
UK Release date
22/09/2009
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  1. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Aimed at the feet, the head and the ass, it's a club album that sounds equally fine in the home. To paraphrase an earlier Jaxx tune: Take it back to your house. Very, very good
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  2. 8.0 |   The List

    An album that is both wildly different and more of the same all at once.
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  3. 8.0 |   The Observer

    Scars sounds entirely consistent and it's the band's most evenly entertaining album to date.
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  4. 8.0 |   The Australian

    The pair has mastered the art of the incredibly dense, detailed dance track, piling sonic effect on sonic effect, without overwhelming the listener with minutiae
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  5. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    They are constantly striving and experimenting, and when you're brave enough to take artistic risks, you're bound to turn out a dud here and there.
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  6. 7.0 |   Spin

    That top-heavy wobble still sways a groove like no other.
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  7. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    If Basement Jaxx want to hide their scars behind such easily enjoyable and well constructed pop music, then long may they continue.
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  8. 7.0 |   PopMatters

    Though the Jaxx will continue to rack up left-field hits and critical acclaim for years to come, both Scars and Crazy Itch Radio show that the group’s innovative streak has come to an end.
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  9. 6.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    A wonderfully crazed disco outing.
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  10. 6.0 |   Evening Standard

    There’s nothing here to suggest a new dance revolution is imminent but even less to suggest that Basement Jaxx are creatively bankrupt.
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  11. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    Thirteen tracks, nine of them absolute corkers, the remainder edging towards the formulaic or flirting with Zero 7 levels of aural catatonia.
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  12. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Even when the collective take a step towards the the higher ground, there is a colour-by-numbers feel to the manoeuvre
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  13. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  14. 6.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  15. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only

  16. 5.0 |   The Quietus

    Basement Jaxx have lost the hooks and chutzpah that reeled so many of us in.
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  17. 5.0 |   NME

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  18. 4.0 |   The Independent

    The weakest release of their 10-year career.
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