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Receivers
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 6 votes
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Album Info
Label: Jagjaguwar
Release Date: 21 October 2008
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Indie
Summary
The latest album for the Brooklyn, New York band is the first with new drummer Joe Wong and guitarist Sarah Lipstate.
Also On The Web: Official Artist Site
What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Receivers finds the band slowing down the tempo and more fully exploring the textures and nuances of its dense, multi-layered soundscapes.
Read Full Review >No Ripcord
The album’s generative “concept” is as strange and incredible as its music.
Read Full Review >Prefix Magazine
This semi-collective sound-making only adds to the expansiveness of the band’s gestures.
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
It's hard to predict where they'll go from here when Receivers sounds as if they've stretched their favorite sonic ideas to the very brink of saturation--but no one could have guessed they'd take them quite this far.
Read Full Review >Magnet
While Parts & Labor’s grinding wall of noise seems to invite this kind of egalitarianism, the experiment never seems gimmicky or extraneous. Instead, it becomes virtually impossible to distinguish what sounds do or do not belong. It all comes together in one glorious racket.
Read Full Review >Uncut
'Little Ones' is insanely jaunty, like somthing out of "Sesame Street" and one of the most enjoyable songs of the year. The rest of Receivers is equally buoyant. [Dec 20008, p.108]
The Wire
If the crackling electronic chaff of previous efforts seems less dominant this time around, it most likely because the group have learned to skillfully incorporate it into their increasingly accomplished and accessible songcraft. [Nov 2008, p.74]
All Music Guide
An open-minded rock record that relies on a wide array of familiar signifiers but never once sounds like it could have been recorded or released any earlier than it was.
Read Full Review >Delusions of Adequacy
Parts and Labor have expanded their sonic palette with Receivers and with it may find some new fans who wouldn't have been able to tolerate the overwhelming stimulation of previous releases.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle
The addition of Sarah Lipstate on guitar and tape clearly allowed for greater compositional freedom.
Read Full Review >Drowned In Sound
Turn this one need up loud to fully appreciate it--it's hardly bedtime listening--but you might want to have a little sit down and gather your thoughts after listening to it through for the first time and then listen to it again.
Read Full Review >PopMatters
On first listen, it might not sound like an album that bears its teeth as much as Stay Afraid did. But after a while, the size of this album reveals itself to be something entirely new for the band.
Read Full Review >The New York Times
Melodies and vocals claim the foreground unchallenged, in major-key melodies that can sometimes chime like U2; the noise is still there, but it has moved to the fringes, as a stimulant and irritant rather than a barrier.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Channeling the motorized grooves of Can and the industrial experiments of Throbbing Gristle, these Brooklynites deliver a chilling, post-apocalyptic concept album about failing to keep up with capitalism and technology.
Read Full Review >Tiny Mix Tapes
Parts & Labor are exciting, both on a gut level and an aesthetic one, but the shift to a more sedate sound hasn’t pushed them in directions that emphasize this enough, at least so far.
Read Full Review >Under The Radar
This new four-piece lineup seems to allow for a more diverse sonic palate with only a minimal amount of lost vigor. [Fall 2008, p.78]
Mojo
On opener 'Satellites,' with Neu!-like locomotion, big guitars and electronics, and melodic twists, they trump their better-known neighbours. [Dec 2008, p.111]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
jefferson h. gave it a10:
Best punk record of 2008.
