Do Whatever You Want All the Time - Ponytail
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  • Summary: The Baltimore quartet return from its hiatus (guitarist Dustin Wong recorded a solo album and drummer Jeremy Hyman had a stint with the Boredoms) to reunite for its third album of experimental art rock.
  • Record Label: We Are Free Records
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. Pitchfork
    Apr 13, 2011
    82
    It's a welcome reminder of this band's current status, because one hopes that Do Whatever You Want All the Time isn't an end, but another new beginning.
  2. Filter
    May 25, 2011
    80
    Here, they iron it out into something more epic and exploratory. Strange basslines float under guitars that riff on high-life note-picking and fractured, heavy rhythms.
  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    May 2, 2011
    60
    Do Whatever...sounds less like inhibitions being shed, less like sex with a tree trunk after a hallucinatory, three-day Haribo bender than their other stuff - and that's kind of a shame, too.
  4. Drowned In Sound
    Apr 13, 2011
    30
    To truly grasp the vigour of Do Whatever You Want All The Time, do it yourself. Grab four mates, pick up some instruments and go nuts. Just don't cut an album from the sessions.

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