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New York Noise - Various Artists
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80 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Stylus Magazine
    93
    Played start-to-finish, New York Noise begins to cohere into a joyously multi-hued mass, where hip-hop is a natural cousin of atonal noise, where minimalism becomes the perfect complement to funk, and where not even the skronked-out mess of DNA or the melodramatic ultra-seriousness of Glenn Branca can get in the way of a good party.
  2. All Music Guide
    90
    Another title that demonstrates what an awesome period the late '70s and early '80s was for music.
  3. Pitchfork
    84
    From hip-hop to no-wave, jazz-punk disco to house music to electroclash, sleek funk to crusty noise, there's a lot to cover, and Soul Jazz does the job admirably, touring the biggest landmarks and some of the interesting diversions not on the map, but nonetheless co-existing side-by-side.
  4. Q Magazine
    80
    Its brilliance lies in sifting the wheat from the enormous quantity of thenameless movement's chaff. [Aug 2003, p.119]
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  5. Rolling Stone
    80
    It feels like one big loft party, even when it veers into psychotic, dissonant No Wave by DNA and Mars.
  6. The Wire
    80
    New York Noise is exemplary: the right mix of 'hits' and obscurities. [#233, p.71]
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  7. Uncut
    40
    The vast majority of it still sounds like what it was: cerebral, bloodless 'dance' music for junkies, the kind of posturing Gotham tripe we used to describe as "atonal" and "angular." [Aug 2003, p.120]
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