What Are You On? - East River Pipe
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76 out of 100

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8.7 out of 10

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  • Summary: 'What Are You On?' is the latest home-recorded offering from New York multi-instrumentalist F.M. Cornog.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Alternative Press
    100
    The words are as bleak as ever, and the songs still cut like coal-black shards of anti-pop bitterness. [Apr 2006, p.204]
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  2. All Music Guide
    80
    This is right up there with his best.
  3. Lost At Sea
    75
    Present are the hints of early Guided by Voices, spotty Who outtakes and country-tinged acoustics that make East River Pipe so beloved, but here these influences tread, weighted, underwater.
  4. Pitchfork
    58
    What Are You On? bristles with unchecked bitterness that often curdles into condescension.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
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  1. DougP
    9
    Beautiful sadness. Or sad beauty. Hits you in the bottle.
  2. DaveJ
    9
    I've followed this guy since his first Sarah Records single, and last night it hit me as I made a comp throwing together some of his finest moments from all the releases of the past 15 years (only 6 but I'll take every one of 'em). F.M. is one hell of a buried treasure and we are lucky he survived this harrowing bout with drugs/alcoholism. All this genius coming from a guy who once lived in a train station, not caring if he lived or died. This release is quickly becoming my favorite, and that's saying a lot. I've made literally thousands of comps thru the years and always include at least 1 ERP song. This is about equal to the actual promotion he gets from not touring. Our pop generation's J.D. Salinger deserves a much wider audience, and he's not going to get it working at Home Depot.… Expand
  3. tomh
    9
    Viewed against his own work, this album is just as good as 1996's MEL, which is a high compliment. Viewed against Cat Power and other "indie albums of the moment", it is superior. Unfortunately, WHAT ARE YOU ON will probably fall by the wayside, as East River Pipe does not tour and does little other promotion. What a shame.… Expand
  4. EricR
    8
    An underrated gem. I'm new to Cornog

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