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Universal acclaim - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Jun 17, 2026
    90
    This is by no means an easy listen, but it is one of the strangest and most honest helping hands you’re likely to encounter.
  2. Jun 17, 2026
    90
    In transforming personal anguish into shared material, BIG|BRAVE provide listeners with a tangible reminder that grief will never belong to them alone, and make critical contact with a transcendent reality we can conceive of, even if it remains beyond full reach.
  3. Uncut
    Jun 17, 2026
    80
    Though the turbulence threatens to shake some songs into their disparate doom-metal and shoegaze components, Wattie's alternately tremulous and ferocious vocals provide a centre that somehow holds. [Jul 2026, p.29]
  4. Jun 17, 2026
    80
    The result is the most texturally detailed, sonically overwhelming BIG|BRAVE record to date. Nearly every moment is bristling with blown-out distortion, yet it's shaped so that there's enough space for all the elements to breathe instead of cancel each other out.

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