- Record Label: Artist Direct
- Release Date: Mar 18, 2003
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Alternative PressThe quintet's Molotov mixture of suburb surrealism and sonic extremity is the perfect scrub for everything you've been subjected to in culture and daily life. [Apr 2003, p.73]
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The most prolific, beautiful, and vital statement of rock since the Stooges' Raw Power.
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Burn, Piano Island, Burn is an album that must first be listened to twice: once to wrap your head around its peerless vigor and skull-rattling force, and again to revel in its restless creativity.
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SpinThey sound like they're too busy tearing their limbs off and hitting one another over the head with them to think about what the songs actually mean. [Apr 2003, p.102]
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Burn, Piano Island, Burn balances so perfectly between commercial appeal and untainted creativity that it's as if the band have been digitally inserted atop a mountain no man could conceivably climb.
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MojoThere are no punk-lite hits here, but cult stardom is knocking at the door. [Mar 2003, p.112]
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I have to admit that this release usually manages to give me a little boost when I listen to it and it has the added bonus of scaring little kids.
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Whether you end up liking this album or not, it is going to be one of the most intense things you've ever heard.
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It's the band's most vital disc to date, and one of the year's most memorable listening experiences.
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Entertainment WeeklyThe Blood Brothers' take on hardcore incorporates all the shouty vocals, savage guitar riffing, and hyperspeed drumming you could ask for, but throws in two--sometimes counterproductive--vocalists, and loopy lyrics that aim for surrealist poetry and usually miss, badly. [11 Apr 2003, p.78]
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The album's clever turns don't take away from The Blood Brothers as a ravaging hardcore band; instead, they enlist chops in service of a manic vision all the more insinuating for its brutality.
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In one instant, lead singer Jordan Blilie is whispering passionately in your ear. In the next, he tears into your insides with growls so piercing you'd think he'd transformed into a savage beast.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 31
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Mixed: 1 out of 31
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Negative: 4 out of 31
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johnwFeb 5, 2006fuck crimes
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QuelfMongerApr 24, 2003
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