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- Summary: The LA-based band, now living in Nashville, reunite with longtime producer Liam Watson for their fourth album.
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- Record Label: Varèse Sarabande
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Garage Punk, Garage Rock Revival
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Mixed: 2 out of 6
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Aug 2, 2011If the band were merely backtracking from the more arranged and fleshed-out sound Cartwright gave them, this record could be seen as a retreat. Instead, it sounds like they needed to go back to Watson to root out demons and get back to basics; instead, it sounds like a charge.
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Aug 4, 2011The album teems with strong songs and performances.
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Aug 2, 2011Unlike many retro-revivalist bands, they've got Hames' sassy vocals front and center, ensuring that the band's both smiling and showing its teeth.
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Aug 2, 2011Wicked Will offers a sprint through Ettes' tumultuous world, and in the end, the whole ride lasts for little more than half an hour. Oddly, the one emotion that the band avoids-joy-is the one that it leaves you with in its wake.
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Under The RadarAug 4, 2011It's hard to deny the Nashville charm of The Ettes, back for their fourth album, as they drive you down a back road with their blues-tinged rock, gliding as smoothly as Southern moonlight. [Jul 2011, p.89]
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Aug 29, 2011The retro inferences of this one male/two female trio's name appear prominently in their spunky, punky, fuzzed out, garage rock.