Something Dirty

Critic Score
Based on 10 reviews
2011 Ratings: #468 / 1068
User Score
Based on 14 ratings
March 1, 2011 / Release Date
LP / Format
Bureau B / Label
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Critic Reviews

75
Pitchfork

Something Dirty plays like a well-paced movie, with tonal arcs that dissolve into each other, cut back and forth, and build repetition into crescendo.

70
Drowned in Sound

This is pretty much business as usual for them, despite the fact that this bears remarkably little resemblance to anything that’s come before in the Faust canon.

50

Listenable.

DapperBlue
90

With Faust now getting back into a swing of things with C'est com... com... compliqué and Faust Is Last, and in a decade that thrives upon making experimental music due to the likes of Secret Chiefs 3, Xiu Xiu, and The Mars Volta, it was certainly a good time to be a Faust fan, especially after getting their 2011 record, Something Dirty.
Whilst C'est com... com... compliqué was more of a back to basics for Faust, Something Dirty pushed things into a much heavier ... read more

kattenbroekcom
53

Sadly this is more of the boring stuff and this has a more jam like quality than some of their other albums. Still pretty boring.

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