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  • Summary: The first album of new music in eight years since 2016's Take Me To The Trees from British new wave/post-punk band Modern English was produced by Mario J. McNulty and mixed by Cenzo Townsend.
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  1. Mar 1, 2024
    80
    1 2 3 4 is the perfect companion to 2017’s underrated Take Me to the Trees and a record that continues to solidify the band’s relevance four decades into their career.
  2. Record Collector
    Jun 10, 2024
    80
    Echoes of the past but very much of today. [Mar 2024, p.105]
  3. Mojo
    Mar 1, 2024
    80
    The veteran 4AD band bring a depth and worldliness to these songs that sets them apart. [Apr 1024, p.92]
  4. Classic Rock Magazine
    Mar 1, 2024
    80
    This is fine work indeed. [Apr 2024, p.80]
  5. Mar 1, 2024
    70
    Grey's voice is sometimes treated in a way to further emphasize the urgent bulletin-like quality of the material, but otherwise, this crackles with spontaneity, and the band at times plays with nearly the same ferocity displayed on some of their 1980-1982 output.