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NakedSelf
by The The


7.7

based on 11 reviews
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LABEL:	Interscope
RELEASE DATE:	29 February 2000
DISCS:	1 disc
GENRE(S):	Rock, Alternative

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Spin Cycle

The wildly disparate influences and sensibilities mesh to great effect on this stunning album.

Checkout.com

On Naked Self, Johnson hasn't let up one bit. His tongue is as sharp as ever, and his songs show that updating one's style doesn't have to mean dressing in this year's airwave fashions.

Pitchfork

NakedSelf once again finds Matt Johnson in his element, tackling issues of alienation, global corruption, and urban squalor and decay with potent, more succinct lyrics and some of his most affecting melodies in ages.

Mojo

The winnowing, soul-pop sheen of the hit-yielding Soul Mining and Infected is long gone, replaced by an overall grungey, corrosive edge which indicates that Johnson bought up every last piece of analogue gear in town.

Q Magazine

Though rockier in parts than any of his previous work, this 12-track set houses some of Johnson's most impressive songwriting to date.

MTV.com

Gone is the sweeping piano and oozing horns of previous albums. Gone too is the pop sensibility that permeated Dusk, Mind Bomb, Soul Mining, and others. Matt Johnson has never been a pop artist, but he can craft amazing melodies. However, Johnson has hit a new level of menace here, like he's become a subterranean dweller since 1993. It's musically more free form and grittier. This takes some adjustment.

Billboard

There's a refreshing lack of samplers, loops, and unnecessary electronic ephemera here... [s]olid from beginning to end...

New Musical Express

Recorded with a Luddite's zeal- no keyboards, samplers, sequencers - he's... managed to document the clanking claustrophobia of modern life.

Wall of Sound

NakedSelf feels more like a transition than a treatise, like a little bit less when more is actually called for.

Rolling Stone

NakedSelf finds him returning to the slow-burn industrial grind of his best work.

All Music Guide

A hit-and-miss affair.

The average user rating for this album is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Scott M. gave it a3:
Melody and harmony are almost completely absent. Some of the lyrics are embarrassing ("Kentucky fried genocide" deserves to be repeated?).

Still Closer gave it a9:
It seems that Matt Johnson was a little bit tired of commercial songs and fall back to his roots. The album is a little hard to grab at a first hearing. Like almost all Matt's albums, it grows up everytime we heard it. It seems the perfect soundtrack for George Orwell's 1984.

Ultra Jones gave it a 9:
I didn't like this album the first few time I listened to it, but it has grown on me... now one of my favorites.

Kyan L gave it a 10:
This album is awesome. I loved it the first time I heard it. True The The fans will appreciate this album the most.

Mister K gave it a 9:
Must be listened to between sunset and sunrise to be fully appreciated. A fresh, intense, melodic experience. This band has unstoppable vitality.

S G gave it a 9:
Another TheThe classic. Taste the grit.

Eike S. gave it a 9:
Music to lose yourself in and merge with it - a soundtrack to a dream

NakedSelf by The The

NakedSelf
by The The