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- Summary: The 12th full-length release for the Chicago alternative rock band that includes Janet Bean, Mark Greenberg, Doug McCombs, and Rick Rizzo features the addition of guitarist Jim Elkington.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jul 22, 2015The world needed a rough-hewn reminder of how achingly powerful two guitars pawing and scratching at each other while a rhythm section spars alongside them. Works For Tomorrow does just that.
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Jul 20, 2015Works for Tomorrow stands alongside their best albums.
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Jul 20, 2015Works For Tomorrow just gets better and better with every successive--and necessarily louder--airing, to the point where it does indeed feel like another genuinely great Eleventh Dream Day long-player.
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Q MagazineJul 30, 2015God only knows how they stay this angry, or this compelling. [Sep 2015, p.110]
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Aug 27, 2015Eleventh Dream Day are living in the moment, and they have never sounded madder than they do on Works for Tomorrow. They also sound, on their own terms, quite superb, and not at all like they’re trying to keep the past alive.
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Aug 7, 2015Works is a crisp, punchy-sounding record, not far from the unfussy, live-in-a-room feel of early triumphs like Prairie School Freakout.
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Jul 20, 2015It often has the spontaneous feel of a live show, and Mark Greenberg's unfussy production serves to amplify that rawness.