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85 out of 100

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8.7 out of 10

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  • Summary: The debut full-length album from the New Jersey punk-rock sextet.

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  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
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  1. Sputnikmusic
    100
    The Airing Of Grievances is not about anything so much as it is for everything--the beauty of life, the tragedy of life wasted, the looming of death and the desire to go out having lived fully--no, it is not about those things at all, it is for those things, it is a collection of songs written as odes to the gritty and the beautiful and the mixing of the two: our world, our sick world.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    100
    With thrash-and-burn riffs, shout-along rants, E Street Band-style blue-collar blues, and tin-can acoustics, these Jersey boys' debut album The Airing of Grievances burns all the way down from its big mouth to its black liver.
  3. Q Magazine
    60
    Muddy production means the literate lyrics often get drowned out by the surrounding racket, but otherwise this is a raw treat. [Mar 2009, p.105]
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