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- Summary: This is the latest album for the British post-punk band led by Mark E. Smith.
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- Record Label: Cherry Red
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 19
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Mixed: 5 out of 19
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Negative: 2 out of 19
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MojoJan 19, 2012Ersatz G.B. offers no easy explanations, but instead twists and excites the listener's brain with unexpected phantom bewilderments. [Dec 2011, p.100]
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Nov 18, 2011Ersatz GB still trumps most records released this year as, one suspects, The Fall always will.
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Dec 2, 2011With so many distinctive elements to their music – the ever-present Mark E. Smith, on whom most of the band's writing falls, that frenetic post-punk energy, and the garbled, often subversive, offensive, or disgusting lyrics – it becomes difficult to write about one album without placing it in the context of the others.
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Nov 10, 2011There's still not enough testosterone on display for it to count as one of their very best, but it's not half bad.
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Nov 16, 2011It's not up there with their very best, but it's actually not that far off.
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Dec 6, 2011Contains a set of willingly - and often tedious - half-finished songs, forming a clumsy collage (cover art reference) that is actually more coherent and better enjoyed when contextualized within the band's 34-year trajectory.
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Dec 1, 2011Ersatz G.B.'s abrasiveness, inscrutability, and tedium are increasingly tough to take with repeated close listening... a shabby, grueling album.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Nov 26, 2011
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Dec 22, 2011
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