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- Artist(s): Richard Lloyd, David Thomas, Cheetah Chrome, Craig Bell
- Summary: The first album of new material in nearly 40 years for the Cleveland, Ohio, rock band is known as a major influence on punk and alternative music.
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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Proto-Punk
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Dec 12, 2011There are moments of eroded aimlessness to Barfly, but they're few and far between. What's left is a fierce, simmering, ghost-steeped album that finally gives form to one of rock's great unresolved mysteries.
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Dec 12, 2011While it doesn't quite account for the storied legend of the band behind it (these guys wrote Sonic Reducer, Ain't It Fun, and Final Solution, after all), Barfly is an album that sounds immediately important.
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Dec 12, 2011It's a curious creature with habits of its own, though the results suggest they shouldn't end this grand experiment just yet.
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Dec 12, 2011This isn't an album meant to take on the world--those days are long gone--but it does stake the band's claim, to a degree.
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MojoJun 28, 2012Barfly is pithy, punky pop and some of it really shifts. [Jan 2012, p.98]
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Dec 12, 2011Barfly's 11 tracks find a band unsure of which direction to take, eventually settling on a version of muddled garage rock.