Marks To Prove It

The Maccabees - Marks To Prove It
Critic Score
Based on 18 reviews
2015 Ratings: #520 / 1021
User Score
Based on 70 ratings
2015 Rank: #449
Liked by 2 people
July 31, 2015 / Release Date
LP / Format
Fiction / Label
Indie Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
NME
It’s refreshing to hear what they can do when they cut loose, when they’re not afraid to be a bit raw and spiky.
80
DIY
Trading out falsetto doubling and re-doubling for a female vocalist, and chucking the computers out of the window, The Maccabees have made an album that sounds touchable, physical.
80
The Line of Best Fit

Marks To Prove It is not a crowning glory, but it is an accumulation of all the things that we enjoy from The Maccabees.

80
Clash
'Marks to Prove It' is the most cohesive offering from the Maccabees to date. On the surface, an extension and refinement of their previous record, but in reality, a thrilling, provocative and daring album that rewards with each listen.
80
Drowned in Sound

With Marks to Prove It, The Maccabees have created a record of gritty intimacy.

70
AllMusic

Overall, Marks to Prove It feels a bit anxious, but that's not necessarily to its detriment, and four LPs in, the Maccabees are still making smart and sophisticated Brit guitar rock.

60
The Guardian
These are slow, loping, anxious anthems that bypass the drunkenness and muddle the brain like a hangover.
60
musicOMH
Big choruses come and go but there is an emptiness right at the heart of The Maccabees’ world, a darkness never fully extinguished.
43
Consequence of Sound
At this juncture in the band’s career, The Maccabees should aim higher than pleasant comparisons.
gabromzk
78

Surprisingly good. Favorite tracks: Marks To Prove It, Slow Sun, Something Like Happiness.

78

The title track was my favorite song for a while, and Spit It Out is incredible too.

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Track List

  1. Marks to Prove It
  2. Kamakura
  3. Ribbon Road
  4. Spit It Out
  5. Silence
  6. River Song
  7. Slow Sun
  8. Something Like Happiness
  9. WW1 Portraits
  10. Pioneering Systems
  11. Dawn Chorus

Year End Lists

#9/NME
#23/Digital Spy
#27/Q Magazine
#33/Clash
#34/musicOMH
#46/Drowned in Sound
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Added on: May 28, 2015