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9.0
87442
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
For all their weirdo mangled machine noise, it feels like they’ve reached a beautiful plateau
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8.0
87550
8.0 |
musicOMH
Congrats is most certainly an album given to emotional swings, it is mean and moody one moment and ridiculously blissed out the next
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8.0
87332
8.0 |
Exclaim
In dialling back the chaos a bit, the band have made room to let the smaller details of their dense and intricate music shine
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8.0
87213
8.0 |
The 405
Holy Fuck have reached the point of maturity that their natural talent always deserved
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8.0
87214
8.0 |
The Skinny
Holy Fuck have crammed a fistful of heart-racing, adrenaline-pumping club bangers into a blender, and smashed the result through a sieve (with a hammer)
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8.0
87222
8.0 |
Uncut
"House of Glass" and "Crapture" suggest Holy Fuck are happier putting their rubbery grooves and vintage gear under serious duress. Print edition only
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8.0
87223
8.0 |
Mojo
If Congrats is no less aggressive than its three predecessors, the crisp Neon Dad qualifies as pop and Acidic is a weird kind of joyous electronic ska. Print edition only
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8.0
87241
8.0 |
NOW
The Toronto four-piece sound more focused than ever and just as unique
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8.0
87251
8.0 |
All Music
Congrats still sounds unmistakably like Holy Fuck, but their vision of weird electronic pop is much clearer here
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8.0
87253
8.0 |
DIY
This is an album polished enough to see your face in, and yet it’s probably - and this isn’t necessarily a criticism - the most disjointed Holy Fuck album to date
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8.0
87257
8.0 |
State
Holy Fuck have timed their return beautifully
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7.5
87249
7.5 |
A.V. Club
The welcome return of a foursome of dudes that are still plenty proficient at creating crooked, cock-eyed, almost-club jams
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7.5
87417
7.5 |
Earbuddy
Congrats isn’t a revolution, but it’s so damn enjoyable that you can work it into work, study, play, or exercise, and that’s really bizarre considering how menacing some of these songs are
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7.5
87600
7.5 |
Pretty Much Amazing
All of the songs (minus one useless interlude) had at least something worth returning to as I played Congrats over and over again
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7.0
87623
7.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
While there are sung words in some Holy Fuck songs, and moreso than ever on Congrats, the vocals are low and blended in, filling reverb-heavy rooms, passing an indirect guidance to the mix
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7.0
87642
7.0 |
PopMatters
f the album doesn’t cohere quite as masterfully as the meticulously calibrated pieces of Latin, it only adds to the urgency and raw confidence of the moves made
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7.0
87393
7.0 |
Pitchfork
Finds them revisiting their circa-05 roots, offering tracks that are as pummeling as they are danceable
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6.7
87260
6.7 |
Consequence Of Sound
Though some of the album’s second half wanes into abstraction, the dramatic arc of Congrats both begins and ends with enough strength to keep it from floundering
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6.0
87212
6.0 |
Under The Radar
Cuts such as "Neon Dad" and "Acidic" are less thriller, more filler
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