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Alternative PressOnly time will accord the Bloods with the same kind of reverence given to such old-school avatars as Gang Of Four, Wire and Public Image Ltd. Wait and see. [Nov 2006, p.194]
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FilterStop bitching about never hearing anything new or different and pick this up. [#22, p.94]
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A monumental rock-'n'-roll album.
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You can call it selling out. You can call it mainstream. Just don’t call it bad. Call it the best album of their career. Scratch that: call it one of the best of 2006.
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This is Crimes refined, sculpted so that its edges aren’t as jagged as many sound-clashes past have proved to be; it exhibits managed eccentricity enough to stoke the furnaces of intelligent, demand-more punks worldwide.
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UrbThe Brothers reach unmistakable heights of blood pressure... but also deliver slow, melodic goodies. [Oct 2006, p.118]
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Young Machetes is occasionally exhausting, but it definitely won't disappoint fans of either the band's earlier or more recent sounds.
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The musicians' new sense of restraint gives us what may very well be the Blood Brothers' smartest album yet.
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While Young Machetes is a slight slip in quality, it is the first the band has made so far.
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'Young Machetes' is both a magnificent and important album.
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SpinA real corker. [Nov 2006, p.96]
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New Musical Express (NME)We say: just give in, it'll be the best vomit of your life. [20 Jan 2007, p.29]
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Its unbearable tendencies are avoidable because they're overshadowed by bursts of creativity.
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Imagine the Mars Volta undergoing electroshock treatment or Blonde Redhead at war with an army of feral cats.
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BlenderScabrous, overdriven spallter-punk. [Nov 2006, p.136]
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They've come a million miles from their earlier recordings.
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There's still not really anyone out there creating music quite like this, but unfortunately The Blood Brothers have made better albums than this.
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The heavier quick-change songs push several different buttons at unexpected moments, but the more straightforward songs, the ones that should glue the record together, flounder.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 31 out of 35
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Mixed: 1 out of 35
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Negative: 3 out of 35
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AdrianAMar 21, 2007
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MonicaDJan 11, 2007Basically this cd makes me cum.
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DrewDJan 2, 2007