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Dec 11, 2015Ork Records: New York, New York opens a window to the past that you can’t go through or even really see through, but it is just wide enough to let the music in and that is a very good thing indeed.
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MagnetNov 17, 2015It's towering tuneful stuff. [No. 126, p.54]
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Nov 11, 2015Ork Records: New York, New York is a superb evocation of a vitally important time and place in American rock & roll, and it's fun, eclectic listening to boot.
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Nov 11, 2015New York, New York is a significant artifact. The music and photographs capture the formative moments of punk and new wave, before those genres had been thoroughly defined.
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Feb 17, 2016A collection of past moments, which add up to a splendid memorial to a monumental moment in New York’s musical history.
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Nov 23, 2015A pleasantly bitchy book gives all Ork acts their due, a raft of rare tracks completing the picture. Prix offcuts are essential listening for Big Star fetishists.
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Q MagazineNov 20, 2015Heroically in-depth liner notes tell the full warty story of a label whose output still stimulates. [Dec 2015, p.119]
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Nov 11, 2015The inclusion here of iconic tracks such as the aforementioned Little Johnny Jewel and Richard Hell’s Blank Generation shows that their label was indeed instrumental in documenting the birth of NYC punk, but elsewhere Chris Stamey & The dB’s Big Star-esque power-pop and The Student Teachers’ quirky, synth-driven art-pop prove that Ork and Ball were equally comfortable promoting bands who had little truck with the three-chord revolution.
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Nov 11, 2015As with most of Numero's releases to date, there are moments of gold in amongst plenty of enjoyably period music and it's best consumed in one, immersive and overwhelming sitting, accompanying book to hand.
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Nov 11, 2015Ork was a scoundrel and eventually a jailbird, but no one chronicled the undercard at CBGB better.