Coming Apart - Body/Head
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  • 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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  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Sep 19, 2013
    90
    Vocally, Gordon is reborn, baptized in fire. [No. 102, p.53]
  2. Sep 11, 2013
    80
    [A] challenging but beautiful album.
  3. Sep 13, 2013
    80
    Love or loathe their destructive attitude towards convention, Coming Apart is an exciting, if extremely strange album.
  4. Sep 9, 2013
    70
    Her 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]
  5. 70
    This 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.
  6. Oct 11, 2013
    60
    This raw, unsettling album's backstory, rendered through protesting guitars, is what gives it its defiant edge. [Nov 2013, p.102]
  7. Sep 16, 2013
    58
    There 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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