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10.0
97530
10.0 |
State
Once again, the voices of the past are brought to life with deeply affecting results right from the off
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9.0
97579
9.0 |
The Digital Fix
Manages to evoke a feeling that invests you in a full narrative from the first track
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9.0
97419
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Every Valley is certainly an important and timely record, but happily it's also an extremely satisfying and moving one
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9.0
97397
9.0 |
Gig Soup
Public Service Broadcasting have achieved the (almost) impossible. They’ve taken a terminally unglamorous subject matter and made a concept album out of it that works
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8.3
97472
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Public Service Broadcasting makes the niche universal on its hooky third album
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8.0
97461
8.0 |
The Irish Times
A record with a serious wallop
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8.0
97486
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Every Valley is touching and emotional but also a soaring and groovy record
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8.0
97395
8.0 |
The Skinny
Every Valley is lush and symphonic, more interested in expressing the human spirit of the mining communities than aestheticising the conditions in which they toiled
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8.0
97399
8.0 |
Evening Standard
The overall effect is sad and stirring
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8.0
97400
8.0 |
Uncut
Feels far more substantial, as PSB's amorphous brand of prog, motorik and post rock integrates fully with BFI clips and first hand interviews. Print edition only
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8.0
97401
8.0 |
Mojo
Timely and useful. Print edition only
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8.0
97402
8.0 |
Q
Poignant and powerful. Print edition only
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8.0
97467
8.0 |
The Guardian
The music beautifully captures a sense of awesome industrial power and a crushing sense of loss
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7.3
97595
7.3 |
Paste Magazine
Uplifting instrumentals aided by weeping, billowy modern synth
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7.0
97739
7.0 |
Spectrum Culture
Triumphs thanks to an overabundance of songwriting ingenuity
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7.0
97478
7.0 |
All Music
Even more so than on The Race for Space, PSB seem less like a gimmicky novelty group and more like a new breed of intelligent, socially conscious pop music
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6.0
97464
6.0 |
The Independent
The focus of Public Service Broadcasting’s J Willgoose, Esq shifts here from universal to local, hopeful to betrayal
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6.0
97521
6.0 |
The Observer
Lament for a lost way of life
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6.0
97584
6.0 |
The 405
The album neither distorts history nor succeeds on a purely emotional level
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6.0
97396
6.0 |
The Music
Every Valley fails to capture the widescreen grandeur of their last album 'The Race For Space
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6.0
97887
6.0 |
The FT
It is tidy but lacking dirt: politics and the insecure aspects of mining, like chronic disease, are overlooked
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5.4
97774
5.4 |
Earbuddy
Every Valley‘s best moment is the song, “All Out”, where PSB go all out with a guitar-heavy performance behind samples of men striking because they WANT to work. Similarly, PSB may want this album to work, but it just doesn’t
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5.0
97617
5.0 |
musicOMH
The political message is familiar, and will never grow old. The means of expression, however, can become a little too routine
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4.0
97398
4.0 |
The Arts Desk
While Every Valley can be quite an endearing hymn to the idea of “community” there is a sense that it also romanticises a job that was dirty, dangerous and, in more cases than seem possible, life-shortening or life-ending for those at the (literal) coalface
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