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10.0
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The Skinny
If you’ve ever wanted to scream at the sky, Deafheaven's Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is the record for you
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10.0
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The Guardian
Clarke, McCoy and co have made one of 2018’s most ambitious and urgent albums
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10.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Subverting expectations to bring you closer to emotional reality: pain and beauty are one in the same
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9.5
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The Quietus
Deafheaven have not just made one of the best metal albums in recent memory, they’ve made one of the best albums of the decade, full stop
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9.1
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Consequence Of Sound
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love has moving, emotional pieces and sharp performances bolstered by a band clearly stretching out of its comfort zone successfully
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9.0
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PopMatters
Takes the strengths of its predecessors and refines them even further, which results in a dynamic emotional and musical experience that previous Deafheaven records came close to achieving, but never quite like this
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9.0
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The Music
The sound of a colossal middle digit being flipped at purists everywhere
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9.0
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Punk News
Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is Deafheaven doing what they want for themselves
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8.9
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8.9 |
Gig Soup
The California outfit continue to astonish on an album that transcends genre, creating one of the year's greatest accomplishments
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8.5
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Spectrum Culture
Deafheaven reaches for the light, marking their latest album as their most engaging, thought-provoking effort to date
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8.5
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Earbuddy
Deafheaven’s latest album is anything but ordinary
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8.5
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Pitchfork
The most extreme thing about Deafheaven’s remarkable fourth album is how subdued it sounds. It suggests devastation without placing you at the center of it
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8.5
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The 405
The band’s most irrefutable credential as a leader in modern Rock
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8.3
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A.V. Club
Only the most stubborn traditionalist could deny how close Deafheaven often gets to the higher plane of its name
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8.2
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Paste Magazine
Deafheaven is a ambitious heavy rock band, a gathering of innovative musical minds, and one of the very best guitar bands on Earth. Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is strong evidence of all three
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
Makes good on years of experimental ambition
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8.0
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Clash
Although the band have spent their last three albums developing a cohesive, distinct sound that’s all their own, on ‘OCHL’ they’re keen to take risks, side step that familiar territory and play with the formula
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8.0
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8.0 |
All Music
With its searing depictions of emotional and spiritual struggle in a relentlessly ambitious musical presentation, it should attract a new legion of listeners as well as deliver assurance and solace to those who found their earlier records so compelling
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8.0
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8.0 |
Q
The San Francisco five-piece remain unforgiving epic, vocals mostly descendant from that same raspy wraith lineage. Print edition only
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8.0
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DIY
Deafheaven finally look comfortable in their many different skins, their opposing worlds gliding together seamlessly
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8.0
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Exclaim
Dealing with euphoria and dissolution, pain and devotion, Deafheaven do not treat these themes as mutually exclusive, but tangle them with complementary sonic environments that span ample musical and cultural landscapes
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8.0
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Under The Radar
By now you've probably heard the album's lead single "Honeycomb," but if you haven't by now, do so, it will instantly make up your mind as to whether this album is worth your time
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8.0
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NME
San Fran blackgaze titans return with their abominable orchestra. Delicious sadness ensues
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7.5
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7.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
While embracing their black metal roots, Deafheaven tap into their gentler and more experimental side of songwriting by creating one of this year’s richest, most cinematic metal albums
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7.0
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7.0 |
No Ripcord
It is, like most of their polarizing body of work, equal parts off-putting and fiercely inclusive
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7.0
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Drowned In Sound
A band going outside of the box without getting out of their depth
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5.0
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5.0 |
Uncut
Too often the crossover strategy mires these songs in the most banal cliches of dream pop and arena grunge. Print edition only
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