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- Summary: This is the debut full-length album for the Israeli rock band.
- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Mixed: 2 out of 7
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What’s funny about the album is that despite all it hard-rocking aggression, it’s a collection of mostly love songs. And it works.
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Alternative PressAs long as there's a hunger for heavy riffs, Monotonix will satify. [Oct 2009, p.111]
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Even without the manic singer actually up in your face, the band’s gleefully knuckle-dragging first full-length is a thrilling throwdown.
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Just as you'd have to be made of stone not to enjoy at least some part of a Monotonix gig, anyone who likes garage rock would have to be an obstinate stickler for originality not to enjoy the best parts--that is, the majority--of Where Were You When It Happened?
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Treat Where Were You When It Happened? as the, in a very real sense, dry run for their shows. Their fun house is as much Pat Sharp as it is the Stooges, but it’s not without its merits.
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UncutFor the most part this is classic fuzzy heavy rock, bordering on self-parody but all done in good spirit. [Nov 2009, p.96]
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Material and energy lag toward the end, but for Monotonix, this isn't where it happens.