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Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
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  1. Jan 31, 2011
    90
    Turns out the Dirtbombs have some mystery in them yet, as they stop sounding like a first rate cover band and instead discover the first rate freeek lurking inside; now that's reason to celebrate.
  2. Uncut
    Feb 8, 2011
    80
    Reinterpreting these sample-and-synth-laden originals for guitar is quite an achievement, and the results are certainly fascinating. [Feb 2011, p.82]
  3. Feb 2, 2011
    80
    It's easy to guess that most of the guys paid tribute to here wouldn't know what to make of the tracks, but if anything here leads the average garage rock-loving Dirtbombs fan back to the sounds of Detroit techno, the album will have done its job.
  4. Jan 31, 2011
    80
    The conceit of The Dirtbombs covering dance music is genius.
  5. Jan 31, 2011
    80
    Techno is, by its nature, hauntingly cold. By pumping some blood to its extremities, the Dirtbombs craft a fresh strain of disco soul.
  6. Feb 23, 2011
    70
    They know that a sound so anathema to many rock and soul fans as anti-human or soulless may have been created on machines, but it was the left-field creativity and forward-thinking imagination of a few of his city's citizens that helped to change the sound of popular music.
  7. Feb 11, 2011
    70
    A curious collection of techno covers from the Detroit garage-rockers.
  8. Feb 1, 2011
    70
    Detroit's music has always driven across racial and genre boundaries. But when a longstanding garage-rock band with a black frontman loads its album with covers of Euro-inspired Motor City techno classics, galaxies implode.
  9. Jan 31, 2011
    70
    Releasing a covers album can be career suicide for some, due to the pressures of stripping apart a classic and making it your own, but Party Store is refreshingly not the case.
  10. Feb 2, 2011
    68
    On the new Party Store, the band leaps even further into uncharted territory, turning in a full hour of classic Detroit techno covers.
  11. Feb 11, 2011
    60
    The highlights--versions of Inner City's Good Life, Rhythim Is Rhythim's Strings of Life, Jaguar by Underground Resistance--don't sound much like techno any more, but have enough suppleness and propulsive thrust that it is possible to imagine a dancefloor heaving to them.
  12. The Wire
    Apr 28, 2011
    50
    In the end, it's the aural equivalent of skyscrapers built out of wattle and daub. [Mar 2011, p.49]
  13. Mojo
    Apr 6, 2011
    40
    Michael Collins' garage rockers do Detroit techno. [March 2011, p. 97]
  14. Jan 31, 2011
    40
    If the band is innately familiar with the rules of this kind of territory, they sound completely out of their depth in other attempts.

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