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  • Summary: This is the second album for the trio of Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Zach Max (Ex Models) and Jeannie Kwon.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Alternative Press
    80
    More fun than most of the original NYC no-wave bands to which the Seconds pay tribute. [May 2006, p.178]
  2. Kratitude is dense, urgent and filled with inherent contradictions.
  3. It's less catchy than 2001's "Y", yet more immediate and hyperactive.
  4. Uncut
    60
    It's frequently chaotic, but instruments occasionally coalesce into unusual, oddly beautiful forms. [Jun 2006, p.112]
  5. Their sound is as alien and devoid of color as a moonscape, yet for all that, intermittently powerful.
  6. While it’s not bad per say, it is certainly lacking in spark.
  7. The tracks are disaffected exercises in barren repetition and arrhythmic progressions that feel truly tossed off (improvised would be an insult to people who are actually accomplished at that) and indulgently "arty" in the worst sense of the word.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. CarlW
    May 30, 2006
    8
    This is a lot better than most of these reviews make it seem, though it's obviously not for everyone. As for Tiny Mix Tapes, it makes This is a lot better than most of these reviews make it seem, though it's obviously not for everyone. As for Tiny Mix Tapes, it makes sense that the most hilariously amateurish pitchfork clone out there would try to make some sort of statement of individuality with a review that's written by someone who obviously has absolutely no understanding of the subgenre to which this band belongs (Wolf Eyes, Liars, and the Macho Man?!?). Expand
  2. SandyS
    Jun 1, 2006
    2
    This album sounds like pretentious art students aping folk music. The musicians seem technically proficient, but the overall sound is a This album sounds like pretentious art students aping folk music. The musicians seem technically proficient, but the overall sound is a contrived, intentionally "rough-around-the-edges" noodling that comes off about as spontaneous as a faked orgasm. Collapse