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Pere Ubu
- Record Label: Fire Records
- Release Date: Mar 18, 2016
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- Summary: The four disc set that includes remasters of the Cleveland rock band's New Picnic Time (1979), The Art Of Walking (1980), Song Of The Bailing Man (1982), as well as a disc of live outtakes and B-sides.
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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Mar 16, 2016With a disc including live outtakes and priceless B-sides, this is an essential collection.
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Apr 8, 2016Even if fans of Pere Ubu take Pere Ubu seriously, it is clear that Pere Ubu aren't entirely serious about Pere Ubu. The quartet of LPs contained on Architecture Of Language highlight this more so than perhaps The Modern Dance and for this reason should not be left aside.
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UncutMar 16, 2016Not a decline, but a deliberate descent. [Apr 2016, p.92]
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MagnetApr 21, 2016Pere Ubu was changing rapidly, but this is shrewd stuff on which the band built its legend. [No. 130, p.61]
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Mar 16, 2016Pere Ubu are somewhere in-between that--impenetrable musique concrete sound collages mixed with upbeat, breezy pop. A strange, strange world to inhabit, but one that’s ultimately as rewarding as it is frustrating.
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Mar 16, 2016Architecture Of Language manages to redeem itself with its final disc, Architectural Salvage. Though an apparently randomly sequenced grab-bag of rarities and outtakes, it’s actually a pleasantly consistent experience.
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MojoMar 16, 2016From thrilling and ecstatic to confounding and even infuriating-- Bailing Man's A Day Such As This, and David Thomas's vocal freakery throughout, is all of these--post-punk Ubu is one of a kind. [Apr 2016, p.104]