- Band members: Kim Gordon, Bill Nace
- Summary: The debut full-length release for Kim Gordon's post-Sonic Youth project is with guitarist Bill Nace.
- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Experimental Rock, Noise-Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 19
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Mixed: 6 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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Sep 19, 201390Vocally, Gordon is reborn, baptized in fire. [No. 102, p.53]
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Sep 11, 201380[A] challenging but beautiful album.
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Sep 13, 201380Love or loathe their destructive attitude towards convention, Coming Apart is an exciting, if extremely strange album.
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Sep 9, 201370Her songs don't so much drift as press steadfastly onwards into the unknown--all of them stick in your head despite little trace of a tune. [Oct 2013, p.63]
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Sep 23, 201370This return to drone primitivism might seem somewhat regressive for Gordon, as it doesn't represent anything remotely new for her as a musician or for drone music as a whole. But it is done with a pleasing malevolence.
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Oct 11, 201360This raw, unsettling album's backstory, rendered through protesting guitars, is what gives it its defiant edge. [Nov 2013, p.102]
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Sep 16, 201358There are no distinguishable hooks or chorus lines anywhere on Coming Apart; instead, it’s just Gordon and Nace simultaneously subverting and creating musical forms that will surely polarize listeners who want to “get it” and those who refuse to.
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