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Listened to with an open mind, it's a refreshingly retro rock & roll album that uses its waste-oid imagination in capturing every fantasy that entered Bobby Gillespie's teenage mind.
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UncutIt's dumb, downhome fun, and deliberately gizmo-free. [Jul 2006, p.86]
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New Musical Express (NME)At its best 'Riot City Blues' is dumb, fun and silly. [3 Jun 2006, p.33]
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Stupid, clichéd, utterly ridiculous for sure, but done with so much pizazz that you can't help but fall for its charms.
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It's all done with such snarling, adrenalised gusto that it proves irresistible.
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Entertainment WeeklySounds like a collection of Exile on Main Street outtakes--and often good ones at that. [25 Aug 2006, p.86]
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FilterThis is the band's most cohesive, accessible, melodic and lyrically viscous record to date. [#21, p.99]
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This album is just a purer distillation, a more joyous exaggeration of the smaller, more tasteful thrills offered by every posturing indie rock band out there.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 31
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Mixed: 4 out of 31
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Negative: 6 out of 31
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BarryMFeb 14, 2007