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Sep 13, 2011There are enough flashes of brilliance on Tripper to make it a great album, but unfortunately enough little moments like that electronic groove on "Kid Life Crisis" to show that there's plenty more for them to reach for.
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Sep 11, 2011It's business as usual: spastic pounding, warp-speed scalar runs, and various math-rock feats of strength.
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Aug 30, 2011If there's one thing that Hella doesn't need to convince anyone after four eclectic studio outings, it's that they can play better than most musicians.
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Aug 29, 2011There's a certain threshold for this kind of demanding material before it gets tiring. It's one that Tripper, staunchly dominated by an old-school style of wanky craftsmanship, crosses pretty quickly.
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Sep 6, 2011The fact that Hella are able to deliver the same thrills, same complexity, and same unopenable exploding package with two members that they do with five is both musically impressive and cognitively relevant to the experience of the music.
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Sep 2, 2011How Hella can have the energy to keep cranking out their spastic, ludicrous-composition noise rock, let alone the brainpower required for memorizing all the parts, is anyone's guess. But sure enough, the duo-just the original two-piece for this one-is at it again.