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  • Summary: The second full-length release for the Memphis garage rock band was recorded with Keith Cooper and Andrew McCalla.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
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  1. Sep 12, 2016
    80
    Hoffman used to be in Ex-Cult. They have the same driving, droning, chanting, intoning attack, and though it’s pitched way up high in a womanly register, it concedes nothing else at all to conventional femininity. Great stuff.
  2. Oct 19, 2016
    80
    They come back hard and a bit more focused on this terrific sophomore effort.
  3. Sep 8, 2016
    78
    Cosmetic’s stewing textural undercurrent intensifies the band’s outer antagonism by highlighting the trembling, deep-seated dread within. It’s riveting and ruining in equal measure.
  4. Sep 8, 2016
    70
    Cosmetic is a strong step forward for Nots that builds on their strengths and gives their weirdness some new and interesting places to go.
  5. Mojo
    Sep 8, 2016
    60
    Peaks on Joy Division-ish New Structures and the helter-skelter title track. [Oct 2016, p.100]
  6. Q Magazine
    Sep 8, 2016
    60
    Their second album in 10 months is every bit as unvarnished as its predecessor. [Oct 2016, p.109]