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- Summary: Does the world really need another Buzzcocks album? Well, this new LP from Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle (which includes two tracks co-written by fellow original Buzzcock Howard Devoto), the band's fourth since re-forming in 1989, may be their best in many years.
- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Punk
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 11 out of 16
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Mixed: 4 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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Seamless without being monotonous, "Buzzcocks" is punk rock for grownups, teenagers, and everyone in between, without pandering or becoming a caricature of itself.
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Entertainment WeeklyIt's nice to hear that middle-age hasn't diminished [their] songwriting skills. [28 Mar 2003, p.69]
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MagnetEven at their most obvious, the Buzzcocks can smoke the young guns. [#58, p.83]
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Q MagazineBack to basics. [May 2003, p.100]
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They've still got angst to spare, but their wit has been ground down by 'maturity,' or whatever you want to call it, into a bitter thing that saps a lot of that reckless energy.
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The album is good -- remarkably so considering how late it comes in a group's life span -- but it's still a late-era release and suffers from many of the same problems so common to that milieu.
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This album is flat boring musically and sonically.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Sep 15, 2014
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MilesDMar 24, 2006Dense and loud!
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