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A Corpse Wired For Sound

Merchandise

A Corpse Wired For Sound

Latest album of brooding indie from the three-piece, including their first ever songs recorded in an actual studio

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7.1

Label
4AD
UK Release date
23/09/2016
US Release date
23/09/2016
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  1. 8.5 |   The 405

    An exhausting and engrossing listen
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  2. 8.3 |   Consequence Of Sound

    As A1 as the production is, its sheen wasn’t needed to make a solid album. The songwriting alone would’ve made sure of that
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    ‘A Corpse Wired For Sound’ represents a back-to-basics move, but also a bold pushing against frontiers
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  4. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Still distinctively a Merchandise album, even though it’s a relative departure from their previous work
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  5. 8.0 |   DIY

    Waft away the fog and ‘A Corpse Wired For Sound’ harbours much more than simple 80s worship
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  6. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    All the songs here are stadium-sized, but Merchandise occasionally play with their established formula
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  7. 8.0 |   Clash

    It’s a beautiful album, and it’s the sound of a band realising they can finally do anything they want with sound
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  8. 8.0 |   All Music

    It's a tough act to consistently maintain, but they've delivered another artful, well-crafted release
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  9. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    A much healthier dose of the dour, passionate intensity that fueled the band's humbler early records
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  10. 7.4 |   Pitchfork

    They've gotten a little more earnest and shoot for a bigger sound. It's a mixed bag, but it's hard to hate them for it
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  11. 7.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    There’s nothing shocking about ‘Corpse’, although there are moments of greatness, as the band happily return to their earlier mope-rock sound
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  12. 7.0 |   The Music

    Not what fans might be expecting but this album succeeds on its own terms
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  13. 6.0 |   Q

    It veers back to the more melancholy, washed-out experimentalism of their first records. Print edition only

  14. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The band have retreated back to their pre-4AD line-up and reined in the overtly pop instincts of After the End, instead content to needle at a single idea in the hope of coaxing something memorable
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  15. 4.0 |   The Guardian

    Instead of summoning fresh ingenuity, the Floridians linger in the shadows of the past
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