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Anxiety Always
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Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings

  • Summary: The Detroit-based electronica duo of Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller (who also run the Ersatz Audio label) have gained a great deal of acclaim for their early singles and work with other artists. Here, on their full-length debut, they offer 10 brand-new tracks. (Yes, the period at the endThe Detroit-based electronica duo of Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller (who also run the Ersatz Audio label) have gained a great deal of acclaim for their early singles and work with other artists. Here, on their full-length debut, they offer 10 brand-new tracks. (Yes, the period at the end of their name is necessary.)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. AllMusic
    90
    Not only does it hold the duo's most sleek and vicious material; it also proves that they can construct a bracing, compulsively digestible-in-whole album that presents the broad range of sounds and complementary sequencing that most great albums require.
  2. Splendid
    80
    Twitchy, insistent and more kinetic than a dancefloor covered with electric eels, Anxiety Always should establish Adult. as the anti-Fischerspooner -- an '80s-inflected duo whose garish stylistic flourishes are far outweighed by their extensive resonant merits.
  3. Spin
    75
    Hipster-mocking songs like "Turn Your Back" aren't as funny as the scene they want to outsmart. [May 2003, p.116]
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  4. The Wire
    70
    Adult. proves that there need be nothing fey or even particularly cheeky about synthesizer music. [#231, p.75]
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  5. PopMatters
    70
    Anxiety Always is, to put it bluntly, one pissed-off album, a snide, sarcastic, bitchy commentary on trend-followers, relationships, and the brainwashed masses out there, and it's so up front in its condescension that you're taken aback at first, so punk-like is Adult.'s sound.
  6. Uncut
    60
    Adult. deserve respect if only for making an almost overwhelmingly vicious album that succeeds on its own unreasonable terms. [May 2003, p.102]
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  7. Playlouder
    40
    There is no New here.

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  1. grants
    Sep 9, 2003
    10
    10+
  2. ValerieS
    May 15, 2005
    10
    Great Album!!! I love the voice
  4. PaulScottodiP
    Sep 11, 2003
    10
    Buy it, no comment...
  5. JonH
    Mar 12, 2004
    10
    Lies and Elegance walking arm in arm! Feverish vocals laced with the divine decadence of an original sound.
  6. momonroe
    Mar 22, 2004
    9
    this album is the fuckin shit.