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ABO keep the music tight and enclosed to match the lyrical mood, making Derdang Derdang a succinct, purposeful statement.
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MojoAn 11-song set that's melodically insidious and swings like a noose. [Apr 2006, p.90]
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It's a journey through the West Country trio's brand of infectious bluesy garage rock and evocative of a head on collision between The Kills and the Arcade Fire.
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This is probably the most exciting record that Domino will release in 2006, eleven songs of hillbilly hoe-down, gothic atmospherics, scuzzy rock & roll, acerbic post punk noise, and dark sexuality.
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UncutBlends bluegrass, backwoods folk and hammered blues with a motorik groove. [Apr 2006, p.106]
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Alternative PressAs much fun as a desperado can have without going on a tri-state crime spree. [Oct 2006, p.214]
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Paste MagazineThrough all the sax squall, noisy racket and oftentimes-undeniable melody... this is a band imploring you to come along for the ride. [Oct 2006, p.81]
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It's garage rock, sure, but it's so much bigger and heavier and totally bloody-knuckled from a bar fight.
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There's an impressive coherence on Derdang Derdang, showing how well ABO has developed an original and guiding aesthetic.
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New Musical Express (NME)It's one drawn-out primal scream that goes from dark and broody to blissed-out drone. [11 Mar 2006, p.43]
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SpinThey sound ready to take on Franz Ferdinand. [Aug 2006, p.76]
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MagnetThe uniformly dark, driving song cycle has no real high or low points--just 11 consistently thrilling guitar and drum loops led around in circular crescendos by Windett's wire-taut tenor. [#73, p.84]
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What this band needs is a microphone maestro on the order of, say, an Albini, instead of the deep-fried Southern crunch that leaves these eleven songs sounding thin and brittle, ultimately highlighting their clear melodic and structural similarities until what could have been a gut-punching EP becomes a substantial-but-marred LP.
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Q MagazineWhile Derdang Derdang has killer hooks aplenty, they're all too often obscured by stop-start rhythms and the unhinged-sounding vocals of Sam Windett. [Apr 2006, p.119]
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The album falls out fairly evenly between catchy little gems and more run-of-the-mill, refreshing but ultimately forgettable, garage rock--the kind of songs you enjoy once or twice, but after a month don’t really ever play.
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These first five songs are like a good singles collection, every one of them free-standing and complete, none of them particularly relating to the others. The rest of the album is slighter and less compelling.
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BobRJul 24, 2007An album of dark uprising cool... love it
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LanceMAug 2, 2006
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BalsamoAug 1, 2006Totally unpretentious, down and dirty weirdness that rocks, surprises and beguiles. Great b/w garage video on their web page.