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The energy the band packs into their songs is unbelievable.
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This is a smart LP. From the opening chunder of 'One Note', a mean bass riff and some grade A wittering, their throb is pure and their thrum sweet.
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BlenderIkara Colt have clambered up the food chain by choosing the short, sharp shock of mid-'80s Sonic Youth as the template for their entire being. [#12, p.143]
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By pulling from alt rock's elite past to concoct its own primitive magic, Ikara Colt has come up with a rock solid first album.
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Chat and Business won't bring you down, nor will it kick your ass. It's the kind of album that's never better than its last single.
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Put it this way - if you don't loathe the likes of Starsailor and Travis with every fibre of your being then there's absolutely no fucking chance whatsobleedingever that you'll like Ikara Colt.
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All the members of Ikara Colt are so damn good at what they do, it's not that difficult to forgive their sometimes-adolescent, not quite fully formed politics.
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Alternative PressIf there's a fault with Ikara Colt, it's that they can't rock steadily for more than a few measures without getting self-conscious about it. [Jan 2003, p.94]