Tim Lee
Everything smacks of this being a grown-up album. Where grown-up in this instance is actually about being entirely honest and forthright about how bad things are. And it’s immensely, moreishly listenable.
4y
Night Network may not be the 12 tracks which would shake the person who doesn’t like The Cribs out of their most curious position. But it is 12 more assertions of greatness from a band who you really should like.
5y
Punisher is funny but serious, subtle yet obtuse, familiar and somehow simultaneously entirely unique. Even if in the final analysis it’s still not massively folky.
5y
As from an unspeakable event a remarkable record has come. One that sits amongst Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ best. Skeleton Tree is full of grief, but full of heart too.
9y
Defiant, solid, aggressive and powerful are all words which you could level at Adore Life. It’s also an album of supreme confidence, one which has no issue with simply stating its case, of which it is certain.
10y
So it’s sweet, it’s sour, it’s angry, it’s reflective, ‘Fast Food’ is pretty successful in capturing the ups and downs of complicated relationships. The fact it manages that in a way which is neither hackneyed or predictable is near miraculous.
11y
The second half, Jenny Death, is better. A lot better. It’s perched far closer to the edge of apocalypse, a pinhead upon which Death Grips seem far more at home.
11y
It is musically defter and subtler than the previous album, if not entirely dissimilar in terms of atmosphere. The pace is slow, the colours are faded and the feeling of doomed romance hangs around the record like bequiffed ne’er-do-wells about a bowling alley.
11y
It is an album that, with a little bit of dedication and a bit of effort leaves you agog.
12y
Always subtle, usually elegant and generally very easy to appreciate, but never implanting itself onto your mind with red-hot intent.
13y
It's a good follow-up, just not a great one. More annoyingly, it feels like it could have been better.
13y
Toy is an epic, psychedelic, droning, wonder. Every track takes the germ of an idea and then repeats it at you with ever deepening insistence and almost imperceptibly subtle evolutions.
13y
Tempest is a flawed but mostly fascinating album. It bears the restlessness of an artist seemingly as interested in making music as he's been for a while.
13y
While it is ever-so-slightly patchy, it would be unkind to suggest that Wild Peace is anything other than an impressive debut.
13y
Lovelorn, honest, poignant and emotional in the best way imaginable.
14y
This is the best and most complete set of songs Spiritualized have made since Ladies And Gentlemen.
14y
It's an impressive work from a genuine legend and as a response to our current situation, leaves us with a pertinent message: in Bruce we trust.
14y
For what it sets out to do, it's damn near perfect, and what higher praise is there than that?
15y
It’s a bold, dramatic, more than a little screwed-up and stunningly exciting statement. In short, it’s an album worth not having to wait an extra 30 days to hear. Or read about.
15y
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