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CRITICAL WAX

2018 ALBUM REVIEWS


We have provided album reviews for a number of websites (see below).  Our own classic album summaries and recommendations can be found over in our Essential section, as well as a guide to essential tracks.  Occasionally CWax ratings are altered by publications to, in their view, better reflect the written review, hence ratings may occasionally differ from those appearing on the publications' own sites.  Click on album cover image for full review.
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A GRAVE WITH NO NAME - Passover

musicOMH - January 2018
CWax Rating 60%

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ALL THEM WITCHES - All Them Witches

Stereoboard - September 2018
CWax Rating 80%

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ARCTIC MONKEYS - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Stereoboard - May 2018
CWax Rating 60%

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ASH - Islands

musicOMH - May 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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RICHARD ASHCROFT - Natural Rebel

Stereoboard - October 2018
CWax Rating 40%

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BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB - Wrong Creatures

Stereoboard - January 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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THE BOXER REBELLION - Ghost Alive

Stereoboard - March 2018
CWax Rating 80%

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THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - Something Else

unpublished - June 2018
CWax Rating 80%

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GAZ COOMBES - World's Strongest Man

Stereoboard - May 2018
CWax Rating 80%

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THE DECEMBERISTS - I'll Be Your Girl

Stereoboard - March 2018
CWax Rating 50%

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EDITORS - Violence

Stereoboard - March 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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EMBRACE - Love Is A Basic Need

musicOMH - March 2018
CWax Rating 60%

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GENGAHR - Where Wildness Grows

musicOMH - March 2018
CWax Rating 50%

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THE HANGING STARS - Songs For Somewhere Else

musicOMH - February 2018
CWax Rating 60%

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HOOKWORMS - Microshift

Stereoboard - February 2018
CWax Rating 90%

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BEN HOWARD - Noonday Dream

Stereoboard - June 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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INTERPOL - Marauder

Stereoboard - August 2018
CWax Rating 50%

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JAGUWAR - Ringthing

musicOMH - January 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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THE KVB - ONLY NOW FOREVER

Stereoboard - October 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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THE LONGCUT - Arrows

Stereoboard - April 2018
CWax Rating 80%

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LOW - Double Negative

Stereoboard - September 2018
CWax Rating 80%

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THE LUCID DREAM - ACTUALISATION

musicOMH - October 2018
CWax Rating 60%

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JOHNNY MARR - Call The Comet

Stereoboard - June 2018
CWax Rating 80%

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MOBY - Everything Was Beautiful

Stereoboard - March 2018
CWax Rating 40%

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PARQUET COURTS - Wide Awake!

musicOMH - May 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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PSYCHIC MARKERS - Hardly Strangers

musicOMH - February 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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SIMPLE MINDS - Walk Between Worlds

musicOMH - February 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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SUEDE - The Blue Hour

Stereoboard - September 2018
CWax Rating 80%

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SUPERCHUNK - What A Time To Be Alive

musicOMH - February 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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KURT VILE - BOTTLE IT IN

Stereoboard - October 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS - The More I Sleep The Less I Dream

Stereoboard - September 2018
CWax Rating 60%

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WOODEN SHJIPS - V

Stereoboard - May 2018
CWax Rating 70%

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