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78 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

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9.7 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 7 Ratings

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  • Summary: The duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss (Sleater-Kinney) return with their fifth LP.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Junkmedia
    100
    Coomes' blatant, almost hilarious, display of his guitar mastery is fun to hear. His solos and fills ride front-and-center, perfect and expansive and insane.
  2. Under The Radar
    90
    Quasi have managed to drive their sound in a completely new direction without becoming self-indulgent. [#5, p.102]
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  3. No Ripcord
    60
    Neither hot nor shit; it's one of those albums you might buy on impulse and be neither disappointed nor overwhelmed by.

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. jeff
    10
    Hot Shit's terrible cover is quickly overlooked after a couple listens. I haven't been this hooked on in record in years. music with meaning, angst and rhythem.… Expand
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  2. Richard
    10
    Album of the Year. Politically relevant, phenomenal musicianship, beautiful as a whole. To put it blunt, it stuns. Sam and Janet once again destroy the "rock and roll" revivalists with raw energy, wit, and tunes to boot. I say it again. It stuns.… Expand
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  3. JesseF
    8
    'Featuring "Birds"' is still the one to get, if you're getting only one...which isn't even to mention the Donner Party, whose second album may very well be the great lost album of the 80s. But unlike Quasi's last two albums, this isn't more of the same but worse. It's a new sound, and a good one, and one that fits Coomes' acerbic songwriting just as well as the ol' Roxichord did. … Expand
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