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Mar 20, 2013Whatever genre you’re into, whatever your favourite publication has said about these guys; Iceage are here to stay and You’re Nothing is one of the best albums of its time.
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Feb 19, 2013Iceage have developed a record reaching out in many directions without straining to make any points.
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Alternative PressFeb 8, 2013It ain't pretty, but the intensity is undeniable. [Mar 2013, p.92]
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May 30, 2013For a band with so many fascinating implications, You're Nothing's catchiness shouldn't be overlooked.
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Feb 8, 2013Easy on the ears they are not, yet it’s hard not to get swept along by Iceage’s droll, disaffected but ultimately joyous punk surge.
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Feb 19, 2013Iceage mine the clangorous middle ground between traditional punk structures and the often sterile world of Joy Division-indebted post-punk, but they transcend both of those genres, just by meaning what they say.
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Mar 13, 2013You're Nothing is an album full of power--power which makes you think and react viscerally.
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Feb 20, 2013These songs won’t convert skeptics, but they’ll give the faithful a few bloody noses.
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Feb 19, 2013The real takeaway from this record should be that his band is officially worth the hype they have generated, and are capable of a whole lot more than we ever anticipated.
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Mar 13, 2013Even if You’re Nothing lacks the raw immediacy of their debut, it sees Iceage defining the parameters of their sound.
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Feb 19, 2013You're Nothing is the magnificent transition from teens powered by punk angst to men mastering aggressive rock songs.
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Entertainment WeeklyFeb 20, 2013The band's second exercise in the dark arts bulks up their sound without losing its ascetic ferocity, pummeling adjacent skinny-jeans genres into one formidable whole. [22 Feb 2013, p.74]
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Feb 19, 2013Amidst a sonic atmosphere of clenched-fist roughness, one can find stark beauty and honest emotional value in the lyrics of lead singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt
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Mar 15, 2013Less dense than New Brigade but equally as prowling, You’re Nothing spits and stuns.
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Kerrang!Mar 6, 2013Album number two towers over its predecessor.... There's beauty within these snapshots of frenzy where there was once just void. [16 Feb 2013, p.52]
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Feb 19, 2013Iceage still thrills here, hurtling through tangled, fuzzed-out hard-core jams that rarely stretch past the three-minute mark.
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MagnetFeb 8, 2013The coarse sonic atmosphere remains, but in nearly every other respect, the evolution is substantial. [No.95, p.56]
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Feb 15, 2013It’s an intriguing mixture of pure punk, post punk, and first-wave emo--think Fugazi or Rites Of Spring--though the moments of deliberate discordance are as frequent as the buried melodic gems.
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Feb 19, 2013Exhilarating and violent.
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Feb 21, 2013Despite the group’s apathetic demeanor, it makes you wonder if each track on You’re Nothing’s sublime dirge is a result of those fleeting moments of carnal ecstasy, as it’s hard not to get lost in the beaten and bruised squalor Iceage expels on their grittiest--and best--album yet.
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Feb 21, 2013Yes, the angsty lyrics are occasionally comprehensible and the songs, which sometimes push past the three-minute mark, have slightly more breathing room, but the chilly, irritated scrape is just as potent.
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Feb 19, 2013A record that’s as jittery and unhinged as it is perversely spot-on.
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Feb 19, 2013Iceage write brilliant songs; on You're Nothing, they've found a way to clarify these compositional skills without stripping away their power.
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Feb 19, 2013Drawing you in precisely because it is so uncompromising and unrelenting, You’re Nothing is anything but nothing, a rare album where you can tell the artists put everything into it and you get just as much out of it.
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Feb 13, 2013The vocals on You’re Nothing, however, are much more emotive and indicative of a newfound acknowledgement of the singer’s vulnerability as a frontman. The result is anything but sappy.
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Q MagazineFeb 8, 2013There's always something clever going on over the rhythmic chug. [Mar 2013, p.102]
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Feb 19, 2013Even on their raw 2011 debut, Iceage knew how to sculpt the noise into songs, but You're Nothing is a huge jump forward.
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Feb 19, 2013You're Nothing turns everything up--it's smarter, faster, catchier and noisier than their debut, more a Funhouse than a Rock for Light.
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Feb 19, 2013Iceage’s sophomore disc may not match the jagged punch and pulse of its debut, but it points the way toward an escape from its frigid, self-imposed cell.
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Feb 12, 2013The lyrics resonate hard, though, felt most strongly when Rønnenfelt sings with broad expressive shouts.
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Feb 19, 2013The result is an intelligent and thrilling collection of existential punk-rock that has so much more to offer than those two paltry words, “punk” or “rock” could ever suggest.
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Feb 19, 2013Iceage has only improved on its formula of turbulent energy and disaffected poetry, managing still to sound youthful, even juvenile--not such a stretch, age-wise--while reaching toward new ambitions.
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Feb 19, 2013Yet beneath the noise, the songs seem more fully realised, more memorable, than on their at times fragmentary debut.
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Feb 21, 2013Iceage's You're Nothing is one of the most exciting, open-minded pop punk (not THAT sort) albums I've heard in years.
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The WireFeb 15, 2013The most interesting thing about this music isn't so much that it exists in 2013, more that there still seems to be a fundamental need for it. [Feb 2013, p.58]
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UncutFeb 8, 2013White-knuckle anthemicism is order of the day, and vocalist Elias Bender Ronnenfelt seem to gave grown into his skin. [Mar 2013, p.73]
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Feb 21, 2013You're Nothing is a punk record, though Iceage's broad creative palette pushes constantly at the limits of that term. Of a piece with 2011's New Brigade, it also serves as an encouraging progression.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 34 out of 41
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Mixed: 5 out of 41
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Negative: 2 out of 41
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