Whip It On
- The Raveonettes
- Band Name: The Raveonettes
- Record Label: Red Ink / Orchard
- Release Date: Nov 19, 2002
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91With dashes of Nick Cave darkness, surf-guitar twang, ugly '60s pop and Velvet Underground-y noise, the Raveonettes offer more variations on the dense tuned-down sound that's overtaking America.
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80It really is hard to distinguish between the eight tracks here, but when a theme's this good, the variants are never going to be a problem. [Mar 2003, p.113]
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80This band could, and should, go mega. [Jan 2003, p.99]
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A 21 minute 41 second short burst of booming, stylish rock alchemy.
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As easily taken for a salute to '60s transistor-radio pop as for Jesus and Mary Chain worship. [28 Mar 2003, p.68]
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Imagine a two-piece BRMC if they'd grown up in a sub-zero landscape in Denmark where the only cultural sign-posts are trashy sado-pulp novels, distorted Velvets bootlegs and endless re-runs of Marlon Brando in classic biker-flick 'The Wild One'.
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70A scrappy little album that at times has a frustrating same-y-ness to it, but with each of the disc's tunes lasting no longer than three minutes, the Raveonettes' proto-punk formula never outstays its welcome.
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70There's probably nothing here you haven't heard before, but it's all wrapped up in a particularly appetizing package and garnished with lots of artful discord.
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A Sonic Youth sneer, VU drone, and the Jesus & Mary Chain fuzz-tone shackling.
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60Little more than comic book soundbites, wilting in the jagged, feverish shadow of their illustrious forefathers.
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60A rockabilly Jesus And Mary Chain. [Mar 2003, p.114]
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60Beneath it all is an album that betrays its bland uniformity after just a few listens; a collection that for all its appearances of excitement, is actually more than a little boring.
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60Style definitely outweighs substance in the world of The Raveonettes.
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58One starts to wonder if all the Jesus & Mary Chain comparisons flying around The Raveonettes aren't due to their J&MC-like tendency to write the same song over and over again, as well as their ability to kick up a right good wall of white noise.
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50While most of the music on Whip It On is somewhere in the vicinity of cool, the vocals sound like two people trying out for a Jesus and Mary Chain tribute band. [Jan 2003, p.101]
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toma8Fabulous noisy fun
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MikeK10super