Reception
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Calenture, saw The Triffids explore themes of insanity, deception and rootlessness. Allmusic's Michael Sutton found "there's an undeniably spiritual feel to several of the songs" where "David McComb spews his words with the fiery passion of a backwoods preacher". Sutton advises "Fans of Nick Cave will immediately be seduced by McComb's bluesy croon; deep and brimming with palpable sorrow, voice never dwindles in intensity". David Fricke writing for Rolling Stone observed that the album "is about the chills and delusions suffered by lovers separated too long from each other and from reality". Mathur and Phillips summarised, " is a precise and masterful record. Eleven songs and one instrumental together illustrate the heights which such finely crafted music can attain". NME's Stephen Worthy reviewed the 2007 version and felt it was "even more difficult to understand why weren’t at rock’s top table with U2 and R.E.M.". Mess+Noise's Lauren Zoric compared the 2007 versions of Calenture and In the Pines (originally issued in 1986), "Calenture emerged from the woolshed chrysalis. It is The Triffids' pop album, and remains a sweeping, majestic masterpiece. McComb's voice is overwhelming, a terrifying embodiment of ruinous emotions reined into literary form".
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