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Smash the System

Luke Haines

Smash the System

Latest album from the alt-rock singer-songwriter and his first non-concept album since 2009’s 21st Century Man

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Cherry Red
UK Release date
07/10/2016
US Release date
14/10/2016
  1. 9.0 |   Uncut

    Smash The System is looser, punchier, a surrealist pop masterpiece. Print edition only

  2. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Equal parts Mad Hatter and true original
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  3. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    In a just world, disaffected children everywhere would be shouting “Do you like the Monkees?” ala the album’s title song and Alpha Industries would be using “Bomber Jacket” in an ad campaign
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  4. 7.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Smash the System isn’t too forthcoming with answers, but it is a fully engaged conversation with pop’s past and present
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  5. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    As long as he’s got stories to tell, they’ll be worth listening to
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  6. 7.0 |   All Music

    Weaving in some solid singer/songwriter-y bits ("Bomber Jacket"), some Sleaford Mods-style post-punk ("Power of the Witch"), and even a dollop of neo-pagan Wicker Man-worship ("Cosmic Man"), all with a wink and a nod, of course
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  7. 6.0 |   God Is In The TV

    All in, this album is perhaps easier to admire than love
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  8. 6.0 |   Q

    Here he isn’t pulling up any trees. Print edition only

  9. 6.0 |   The Independent

    Finds Luke Haines indebted as ever to an earlier era – in this case, the early-Seventies cusp of hippie and glam, mostly viewed through an Eighties electropop gauze
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  10. 4.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    This record will not any smash systems, but unfortunately it will not smash any expectations either
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