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Adding some variety to their tempos would make the band even more impressive, but with More Parts Per Million they've created a bracing, charming debut.
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UncutAs with the best bedroom punk records, the bloody-knuckled passion and immediacy of these 13 rapid songs transcends any cavils about sound quality. [Oct 2003, p.130]
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One problem with More Parts Per Million, however, is that, because most of the songs follow the same formula, it gets a little tiring after awhile, short as it is.
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MojoIts songs hurtle at Buzzcocks pace and fizz with nagging melodies. [Jun 2003, p.110]
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Q MagazineThey've still managed to convert their technological shortcomings into some fuzzed-out, genuinely energised rocking. [Jul 2003, p.113]
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Alternative PressThe sound is a little too consistent, as every spastic outburst starts to sound like the last midway through the album. [Apr 2003, p.86]
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More Parts Per Million revels in distorted, lo-fi counterintuitiveness to the point where it becomes a fifth member of the band.
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Yet though the music may not win any originality awards - Sebadoh and Guided By Voices spring instantly to mind as precursors - there is a refreshing lack of pretension throughout.
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It's messy and it's fun. Sometimes pop music isn't meant to be cleaned up and polished to death, and here is proof of that.
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All of the tunes are energetic, but their similarity will definitely become apparent by the time you reach the album's end.
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They are pop and punk and rock and indie and a combination of all these things, but, more than all of the above, they are Harris' personal songs and they are incredible.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 1 out of 8
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ShaneLApr 12, 2003Despite the over-consistency, it does not drown itself. This is one those records that makes you smile just listening to it.
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TuhMar 22, 2003This is a great album, even though the songs are all very similar. I especially like the title song.
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JeremyLMar 18, 2003