Critical Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
Naïve received excellent reviews. Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls Naïve "one of strongest releases." Ned Raggett of Allmusic began his review by saying "KMFDM brought it all together on the brilliant Naïve," doing "everything from four-to-the-floor beats to Wagnerian epic metal and back again." He went on to call it "one of industrial/electronic body music's key albums" and said that KMFDM was a band "so ridiculously good that everything they touch pretty much turns to gold." He also said that while the title track was "fantastic," the "total standout" of the album was "Liebeslied":
| “ | Outrageously interpolating Carl Orff's noted vocal piece Carmina Burana into a bombastic explosion of mechanical rhythms, orchestral hits, and an increasing amount of hero guitar feedback slabs, not to mention the husked, desperate lead vocals, it's a jawdropping masterpiece that demands and gets total surrender. | ” |
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