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Aug 8, 2011Parts & Labor have turned what might have been the crippling loss of an essential member into just another development in a long and respectable career.
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The WireMay 3, 2011Almost overpowering in its anthemic positivity, Constant Future is unfashionably fearless, and all the better for it. [Apr 2011, p.58]
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Apr 14, 2011Parts & Labor still do plenty of rocking out, but their tight compositions save them from overindulgence.
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Apr 11, 2011Constant Future is by no means a bad record. It is a record that oversells itself.
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Q MagazineApr 6, 2011Here, melody and charmingly lo-fi electronics vie for attention next to moshpit riffing. [Apr 2011, p.106]
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MojoApr 6, 2011Parts & Labor have made their best album yet. [Apr 2011, p.95]
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Mar 31, 2011It can be tricky to pin down Parts & Labor's busy sound - it's noise pop that's not too noisy, or maybe post-punk that's cool with cracking a fat grin - but it almost always has something entertaining going on.
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UncutMar 29, 2011The result is an album that bursts with life and invention. [Apr 2011, p.89]
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Mar 22, 2011Constant Future is another fine rock record from a band that gets harder to ignore with each release, even when the album's titular problem is exactly what keeps them flying under the radar.
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Mar 17, 2011Although their own thickness seems to get a bit cloudy at times, it's never unassuming or presumptuous. Instead, the noise that creeps in and out of Constant Future is always consistent and never over-abundant; in turn, it's very simply a solid release.
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Mar 16, 2011There's very little to complain about in Constant Future, apart from the fact that it's no great step forward from their previous material.
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Mar 11, 2011The lesser tracks here actually seem fit for a Burning Man festival; maybe it's the earnestly cryptic lyrics, or the brightly pummeling rhythms. Better tracks, like "Outnumbered" and "Bright White," convey the potency of this band's formula.
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Mar 11, 2011Constant Future is a solid effort from a talented and original band making unique rock 'n' roll quite unlike anything else out there at the moment.
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Mar 10, 2011In their favour, Parts & Labor embrace melody far more willingly than many of their counterparts on the US underground scene, building their layers of noise in a manner intended to excite and entertain, rather than confront.
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Mar 10, 2011Their fizzy keyboards and Bob Mould-y vocals remain intact, but essentially this is conventional indie-rock.
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Under The RadarMar 9, 2011With Constant Future, Parts & Labor have reached the apex of a sound they've been tweaking and perfecting over the past seven years. [Feb. 2011, p. 67]
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Mar 9, 2011Maybe Constant Future is the record to finally thrust this deserving outfit over the edge. Even if it isn't, it's still another damn good addition to a wickedly unheralded, but highly effective, library.
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Mar 9, 2011On its sixth full-length, Constant Future, the New York art-punk trio cranks up the keyboard-both as an instrument and as a compositional tool-and forges a marginally fresh approach to its harsh yet melodic methodology.
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Mar 8, 2011Constant Future is the sound of a band who, after nearly ten years together, are comfortable with their sound, who know exactly what they're good at and sound like they're having great fun doing it.
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Mar 8, 2011Constant Future doesn't much build on previous albums, stylistically or qualitatively, but it displays a group of now-veteran dudes who know their strengths and who never stop playing to them.
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Mar 7, 2011Constant Future represents Parts & Labor's most consistent and exciting work to date.
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Mar 7, 2011Sure, you can hear that they're awed and distressed about the state of things, but the emotion in Friel and Warshaw's singing seems undercut by the lyrics.
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Mar 7, 2011While it may not be the band's most ambitious or experimental work, Constant Future is a work of cohesive beauty, showing a real sense of vision in its execution that more than makes up for the lack of any gimmicks added in for art's sake.