Alter - Pleasure Forever
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  • Summary: The San Francisco rock band formerly known as VSS and then Slaves returns with a second album for Sub Pop in their current Pleasure Forever incarnation.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
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  1. Splendid
    90
    This is sensual, prophetic, dense and romantic, sumptuous and altogether eerie.
  2. Delusions of Adequacy
    80
    Alter is intense, brooding, and taut, perfectly utilizing piano, chaotic dissident guitar, and complex percussion.
  3. All Music Guide
    80
    Decadent, theatrical, and magnetic, Alter falters only when the band's ambitions get the better of them, but the album's slight unevenness doesn't prevent it from being tremendously exciting.
  4. Alternative Press
    40
    If vocal distortion is to indie rock what the vocoder is to commercial pop, then Pleasure Forever's Alter is Sub Pop's answer to Cher's "Believe." [Jun 2003, p.97]
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  1. dfrooah
    7
    This is a good album. I happened upon it accidentally and liked it despite myself. Unfortunately, the album didn't take hold as the kids didn't really know what to make of it when it was released. Perhaps it will have a resurgence.… Collapse

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