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- Summary: The Los Angeles punk band returns with its first album in 35 years featuring the original lineup of D. J. Bonebrake, Exenne Cervenka, John Doe, and Billy Zoom.
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- Record Label: Fat Possum
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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May 15, 2020“Alphabetland” remains true to the rough sound of those early albums, but pulls the elements together even tighter.
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May 12, 2020It’s not just an impressive, even unprecedented comeback, but one that resonates with the vitality and dizzying power of X’s finest music.
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May 12, 2020It both feels like a continuance of the band’s classic Eighties sound and it’s actually good.
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May 28, 2020At just 28 minutes, Alphabetland fires on all cylinders throughout and bows out before it can wear out its welcome; it's a nearly miraculous example of a band returning to the studio after a long layoff and delivering at full strength.
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Classic Rock MagazineJul 6, 2020This si the sound of lost Los Angeles; of excitement; of wildness; of a deep-rooted passion for biting rockabilly riffs, for life itself. This is beautiful, urgent and, frankly, unlooked for. [Summer 2020, p.84]
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May 12, 2020ALPHABETLAND is a return to the X of the early 1980s.
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May 12, 2020It's not perfect – there's a spoken-word bit tacked on to the end that is less than satisfactory, but the lyrics aren't really the point here. This is a record that fills up a room and begs to be turned up loud.
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