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Yeah, it’s another Silkworm record. It’s not the band’s best and it’s not the band’s worst. It rocks in its own unique, world-weary way.
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BlenderSevere... it's hard rock rigorously stripped of frivolity and glamour. [Oct 2004, p.128]
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Alternative PressEight near-impeccable tracks. [Nov 2004, p.140]
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“Something Hyper” and “Xian Undertaker” are exceptional and worth hearing. However, the rest of the album provides very little payoff.
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FilterSilkworm's brand of rock isn't overly complex, it's just smart. [#13, p.104]
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Even more densely angular and awkward than usual, It’ll Be Cool finds a band so deeply immersed in its own idiom that it’s hard to imagine an ear making any sense of this music, and yet, in spite of itself, the record works.
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If you are unfamiliar with the band, there are at least six other records that should get your attention before this one; just the same, this is hardly a disposable piece of the band's puzzle.
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Highlights the band at its most exploratory.
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Ultimately, It'll Be Cool succumbs to the general lack of ambition that has always been Silkworm's Achilles' heel.