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As good, and inventive, as modern rock music gets: Black Midi's Hellfire reviewed

30 July 2022

9:00 AM

30 July 2022

9:00 AM

Grade: A+

The difficult question with Black Midi was always: are you listening to them in order to admire them, or because you actually enjoy the music they make? By which I mean when you’ve finished listening to them is it a sense of admiration which lingers in the mind, or are you captivated by one or another of their songs? Previously it has tended to be the former – and there is an awful lot to admire.

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