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American Supreme, even at its most unlistenable and monotonous, still makes its point.
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American Supreme proves that Suicide can reach backward and still remain ahead of the pack.
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An accomplished release that attests to their enduringly unique sound and vision.
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Some of it sounds remarkably sedate and conventional ("Televised Executions," "American Mean") while other tracks ("Beggin' For Miracles") ramble psychotically into the good night of avant-garde minimalism.
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Alternative PressDespite its relative palatability, compared with their earlier work, this is a hard album to like--and that's what makes it good. [Jan 2003, p.102]
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UncutThis is audaciously modern in its textural absorption of outre sounds from the 21st-century dance underground. [Dec 2002, p.136]
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MixerSuicide have rounded the edges on their metal machine music and jettisoned some rubbery retroisms. [Nov 2002, p.77]
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The WirePossibly their best.... Brave, bleak yet compassionate. [#225, p.77]
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Mojo[A] fractiously funky but resolutely glum return. [Dec 2002, p.108]