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- Summary: Devo, the New Wave group from Ohio returns with its first album in over 20 years. It not only includes classic Devo but modern dance styles.
- Record Label: Warner Bros.
- Genre(s): Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 21
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Mixed: 5 out of 21
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Negative: 2 out of 21
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There's also a contemporary fullness and distortion in the album's production that updates Devo's sound without sacrificing its unmistakable essence.
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Something for Everybody is pure Devo, triumphantly Devo, sincerely Devo, Devo without scare-quotes.
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It's the closest thing to a party album that Devo have ever released: every track is fast, insistent, loud, danceable, and wouldn't have been out of place in the Top 40 at any time over the last 30 years.
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The tunes are solid, and the quintet plays them with all the enthusiasm, vigor and focus that were missing from most of its post-Freedom of Choice recordings. The songwriting sags a bit in the second half.
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While some will complain that the satirical social commentary just isn't as razor-sharp, and that the wild, primal nerdiness of their first two efforts is long gone, the purposeful Something for Everybody is proudly not a nostalgia trip and is, instead, filled with age-appropriate subversion, right up to its ironic title.
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The WireFor all the enjoyment that this slightly souped-up take on the old sound brings, this kind of comeback can't help but provoke feelings of disappointment and betrayal. [Jul 2010, p.54]
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UncutNone of this would matter if the music had genuine quirk, but Something... is stuck in an eternally wacky MTV 1982 of the soul. [Sep 2010, p.91]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 17
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Mixed: 1 out of 17
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Negative: 0 out of 17
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Jun 2, 2011
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TomT.Jun 16, 2010Great stuff. They boys are back.
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steveJun 16, 2010It's "its", devoluted one!
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EyesandTeethJun 15, 2010
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MikeyM.Jun 17, 2010Great comeback album. A lot of fun not to mention a lot of bounce.
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JeffS.Jun 16, 2010Just downright fun!
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Dec 27, 2010Iâ
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