Vicious Creature
by Lauren Mayberry
  • Record Label: Island
  • Release Date: Dec 6, 2024
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Mojo
    Dec 11, 2024
    60
    Straddles the line between the jackhammer clattering pop of Girls Aloud (Sorry, Etc is almost a facsimile), the elusiveness of Fiona Apple and Chvrches’ own electro backdrop. [Feb 2025, p.88]
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  2. Uncut
    Dec 9, 2024
    60
    Vicious Creature is more compelling than Mayberry's Chvrches material, but may not be thrilling enough to take her where she wants to be. [Jan 2025, p.39]
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  3. Slant Magazine
    Dec 5, 2024
    60
    Screen Violence employed myriad references to horror movies, with song titles like “Final Girl,” “Violent Delights,” and “Nightmares” to illustrate how grim being a woman in the world today can be. Vicious Creature, on the other hand, strains to live up to its title.
  5. New Musical Express (NME)
    Dec 5, 2024
    60
    The sonic range on display is certainly a stark departure from the twisted world of Chvrches’ thrilling 2021 album ‘Screen Violence’, but at times, it can feel more like an ideas workshop than a bold artistic statement.
  6. The Guardian
    Dec 5, 2024
    60
    For all its ostensibly straightforward and zeitgeisty MO, Vicious Creatures is quite a messy, contradictory business overall: alternately clumsy and deft, a homage to pop’s past that’s at its best when it fixes its gaze firmly forward.

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