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Ultimately, The Catheters are big on style, and troublingly low on ideas.
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Alternative PressSeattle's answer to Funhouse. [Jul 2004, p.146]
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A rock-solid album that improves with each listen.
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MojoTheir raucous, raw live show transfers effortlessly to record, justifying all three of those exclamation marks. [Jun 2004, p.116]
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The intensity and energy get a little too repetitive toward the end of the album, but the returns aren't as diminishing as they have been on the Catheters' previous work.
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The Catheters do little to distinguish themselves, instead offering formulaic rock rebelliousness in a nicely packaged, repetitive form.
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Q Magazine[They] continue precisely where they left off on 2002's Static Delusions..., bashing their way through 11 indistinguishable songs without recourse to wit, style or tune. [Jul 2004, p.112]
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It's nice to hear a garage band that actually sounds like it was recorded in a garage.
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Entertainment WeeklyThe quartet's rock & roll may be fairly conventional, but their overdrive proves decently draining. [28 May 2004, p.126]
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Guitars riff, drums pound, the bass plods, and the singer yowls -- but nothing gels.
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For all the energetic, dark, brooding noise of Howling...It Grows and Grows, the Catheters are missing one thing: variety.
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Whereas the Catheters are far more exciting, abrasive, and vivacious than whatever MTV is passing off as rock 'n' roll these days, they seem all too plagiaristic when compared to the garage-rock kings they so obviously idolize.