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Women
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: The debut album for the Canadian quartet was produced by Chad VanGaalen.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Tiny Mix Tapes
    90
    Every track on Women serves a purpose to the overall stereo image, resulting in a debut that sets the bar very high.
  2. Prefix Magazine
    90
    Public Strain improves on Women in every way, which is no small feat. It's 13 minutes long than its predecessor, but Women doesn't use the extra time to spread out. The band keeps the tension up by building the various lean sounds of that record into new, more muscular variations.
  3. cokemachineglow
    86
    A lock for most promising debut of '08.
  4. PopMatters
    70
    Fans of Deerhoof and the Brian Jonestown Massacre's "My Bloody Underground" should be blown away by Women, and it's only their debut. They have real promise.
  5. Lost At Sea
    70
    Ultimately there's so many ideas vying for attention on this album that there is not enough room for its songs to breathe. And the discordant styles, some of them on their own of much merit, never truly mesh together.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    67
    For the most part, the band gets in and out of a song without falling into noise wankery, almost as if they couldn't wait to get into the next idea.
  7. Q Magazine
    60
    At times the experimentation verges on the unlistenable but there's enough promising material here to make this an enjoyable debut. [Feb 2009, p.119]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. atmosphericrex
    May 28, 2015
    10
    Women's debut sounds like a grittier joy division, with abstract guitar sounds and stand-out songs like Black Rice, women's debut is certainlyWomen's debut sounds like a grittier joy division, with abstract guitar sounds and stand-out songs like Black Rice, women's debut is certainly a masterpiece. It's sad to see these guys are not together anymore, although their more recent incarnation Viet Cong is just as amazing in so many respects. It's funny how Joy Division became New Order after the death of Ian Curtis. Women became Viet Cong after the death of Christopher Reimer.… Expand
  2. JeremyD.
    Dec 3, 2008
    8
    I can't stop listening to this album. This brief encounter with Women has left me anxious for more. Infectious melodies that meld into I can't stop listening to this album. This brief encounter with Women has left me anxious for more. Infectious melodies that meld into small side notes from seemingly infinite aural explorations. The length and structure of the album leave me feeling that they are only getting started, and this is more of a "Come on Pilgrim" than a "Surfer Rosa."… Expand

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