- Record Label: Melodic
- Release Date: Oct 12, 2010
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UncutOct 20, 2010It's never indulgent, always exciting. [Oct 2010, p.114]
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Oct 20, 2010[The title track's] the only track on Disc Two, said to have been influenced by hip-hop mixtapes, and it serves as a microcosm for Working for a Nuclear Free City in general: overstuffed with ideas and ADD to a fault, but never, ever boring.
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Oct 20, 2010Such an ambitious sophomore outing is a lot to take in, but with its blend of live drumming, textural guitars, skittering electronics, and wistful harmonies, it's worth braving Jojo's, uh, storm.
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Under The RadarOct 20, 2010In all, it's a magnificent, ear-catching jumble. [Fall 2010, p. 64]
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Oct 20, 2010It's less Working For than Driving Through a nuclear-free (or otherwise) city, taking in all the myriad sights, as opposed to the unchanging view of the motorway/ autobahn.
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Oct 20, 2010Disc two works better in theory than fact, compiling disparate song fragments into a single 33-minute mixtape-inspired track, but the group's radiant delight in pure sound is undimmed.
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Q MagazineOct 20, 2010The pattern continues, as vocal tracks alternate with instrumentals, building toward the 33-minute title track, an opus that contrives to be both ambitious and aimless. [Oct. 2010, p. 121]
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Oct 20, 2010Somewhere inside this massive double album is a concisely edited single disc effort. It's unfortunate that the band passed along this task of editing to the listener.
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Oct 20, 2010Unfortunately, the hour-long main section of Jojo Burger Tempest is too hollow to be of much merit. The great variety of timbres on the album creates a psychedelic vibe, but the songs themselves are simply lacking in focus.
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Oct 20, 2010Caught somewhere between dream-pop banality one moment and pleasant, expertly crafted distraction the next, this overstuffed album is perhaps not nearly as poor as its title choice would suggest, but it's still in need of some generous paring.