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MagnetMar 19, 2012[The album presents a] well-formed, poppy and updated take on their post-punk and new-wave heroes. [No. 85, p. 56]
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Mar 7, 2012A collection that manages to overcome the cobbled-together history of the material to become one of the band's most complete-sounding collections since Employment.
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Mar 6, 2012The version the band have made is still a solid, if not rather good, Kaiser Chiefs album. [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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Mar 13, 2012It sounds like they've never left, with many recurring tropes.
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Mar 6, 2012they've upped their creative ante somewhat, a number of these songs (assuming you pick the 'right' ones) coming across as more measured and mature, and a heck of a lot gloomier, than the upbeat bounce-alongs of old. [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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Apr 4, 2012Even reduced to a proper ten songs, Revolution is still a bit front-loaded, if only because the band will never be as adept at slow atmosphere as they are upbeat rock.
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Mar 6, 2012Some of the better songs lack that adhesive zeitgeist quality that used to be the group's stock-in-trade. But at its best, there's enough variety and invention to recall The Beatles, sometimes directly. [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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Mar 6, 2012Gimmicks aside, any version of TFIM with a core of "Little Shocks", "Start with Nothing", "When all is Quiet", "Man on Mars" and "Heard it Break" won't go far wrong. [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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UncutMar 6, 2012It all sounds like a band working out who they are. [Sep 2011, p.88] [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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Alternative PressMar 2, 2012A set track list and a few new tunes....[creates] a more well-rounded picture of the band than last year's smorgasbord. [Apr 2012, p.92]
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Under The RadarMar 20, 2012Alternately suffers and benefits from "too many cooks" syndrome. [March 2012, p.77]
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Mar 2, 2012The Brit Award winners have suddenly gone all serious, eschewing their trademark singalong choruses and reining in the quirkiness that briefly made them one of Britain's biggest guitar bands, in favor of a more downbeat and slightly psychedelic sound that may be less annoyingly infectious but is also ultimately less fun.
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Mar 6, 2012Two songs aren't enough to prop up this Revolution.
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Mar 6, 2012These lads from Leeds clearly realize their business model needs tweaking, though it's their songbook that benefit most from an about-face. [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
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Mar 6, 2012Their once-ebullient anthems have been replaced by a collection of mid-tempo, uninspiringly ponderous tracks.
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Mar 6, 2012It is, quite frankly, tedious and utterly un-inspiring, lacking any serious ability to convey the emotive forces which I would hope drove the song writing processes. [Review of UK release The Future Is Medieval]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 19
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Mixed: 10 out of 19
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Negative: 1 out of 19
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May 14, 2012
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Mar 31, 2012
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Mar 27, 2012