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10.0
104936
10.0 |
The Arts Desk
What LUMP lacks in running time, it more than makes up for in spine-tingling creativity and beauty
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8.5
104939
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Lindsay’s experimental compositional style that has evolved through Tunng, Throws and producing other artists’ albums, brings out Marling’s assertive vocals
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8.0
104940
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
An intoxicating listen, a record that baffles as much as delights and revels in its weirder moments
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8.0
104937
8.0 |
Earbuddy
Tunng's Mike Lindsay teams up with Laura Marling on the strange, serene LUMP
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8.0
104931
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
While this first album only grants us a fleeting glimpse, Marling and Lindsay convey startling visions through their new vessel
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8.0
104933
8.0 |
Q
The sense here is of two artists drawing creative sustenance from new light. Print edition only
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8.0
104934
8.0 |
Mojo
This six-song cycle is built around a drone, its individual tracks manifesting as if in curls of smoke. Print edition only
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8.0
104950
8.0 |
The Guardian
Lump is brief, but Marling’s gorgeously uncanny melodies – which, like Lindsay’s synth sounds, have an other-timely quality – are dazzling enough to linger indefinitely
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8.0
104954
8.0 |
DIY
With each track melting into each other, ‘LUMP’ feels like a self-contained trip, giving no hints as to the future of the project outside this release, but holding plenty of wonder inside
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8.0
105002
8.0 |
Evening Standard
There are moments of vaulting ambition but room for a little silliness too, which is no bad thing at all
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8.0
105212
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Undoubtedly made in its creators’ image, LUMP is an eccentric but forthright child, one that will never pander to peer-group popularity, but will always gain acceptance through intelligence, sensitivity and honesty combined
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7.7
105093
7.7 |
Pitchfork
Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay wrap prickly observations about lifestyle consumerism in bales of gorgeous melody and grumbling dissonance
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7.6
104995
7.6 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
The kind of album Fiona Apple would make if she spent a few weeks sleeping on The Books’ couch
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7.5
104932
7.5 |
Under The Radar
LUMP, it seems, is a creature of its own will: a living, breathing piece of art
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7.5
104943
7.5 |
The 405
LUMP is the product of predestined compatibility and a journey into a contemporary, avant-garde world of music
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7.2
104980
7.2 |
Gig Soup
Its six songs spin a web through childhood fairytales, a walk through a forest scored by chiming woodwinds, horns and dark synths
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7.0
105210
7.0 |
The Digital Fix
A shimmering glacial beauty of a record
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7.0
104970
7.0 |
musicOMH
After the complexity and startling intimacy of last year’s Semper Femina, her lyrics here are abstract but abrupt, illuminated with occasional, arresting images
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7.0
104935
7.0 |
Uncut
Inexorable forward movement is shadowed by existential dread. Print edition only
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6.0
104952
6.0 |
The Irish Times
Although things get a little pretentious and lumbering at times (as heard on Hand Hold Hero), and forgettable at others (Shake Your Shelter), this is an interesting experiment for Marling
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6.0
104983
6.0 |
The Observer
Marling seems freed to take on surprising guises: Curse of the Contemporary finds her in comfortable role as Joni-ish stardust priestess among spidery twangs, but the graceful delirium of Shake Your Shelter casts her as fretful hermit crab on “a beach full of empty shells”
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