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Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth? Image
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews What's this?

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7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

  • Summary: A side project for Matmos' Drew Daniel, The Soft Pink Truth here offers (in their own, unique way) a variety of punk covers, including songs by the Angry Samoans, Minor Threat and Die Kreuzen.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. Spin
    91
    Daniel's bump-and-grind synth lines are all campy humor. [Mar 2005, p.92]
  2. Urb
    90
    Nasty and raw. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.97]
  3. One of this year's most remarkable "punk" albums.
  4. It’s a highly idiosyncratic album that very few will appreciate every facet of. However, even with a very minimal knowledge of the source material, there’s much to love.
  5. None of the new album reaches the gaudy peaks of Do You Party?, but it bumps just as well through subtle atmospheres and strange detours.
  6. It's hit and miss, and the self-consciously bloodless vocalists are a drag.
  7. Alternative Press
    10
    Our quality of life would instantly improve if this disc didn't exist. [Feb 2005, p.94]

See all 11 Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. stereoleo
    Jan 25, 2005
    10
    this album is not perfect because it's too short (32 min), but despite this fact, this ROCKS! we want more soft pink truth!
  2. johnk
    Nov 24, 2004
    10
    yeaaaah
  3. JasonC
    Dec 16, 2004
    9
    Probably an 8.5. This cd is just damn good times.
  4. wawa
    Jul 15, 2005
    9
    One of the best releases of 2004. The beats are as razor-sharp as the messages delivered in the lyrics. Fuck new wave, give me the SOFT PINK TRUTH.
  5. DanM
    Dec 16, 2004
    8
    fuck the haters
  6. [Anonymous]
    Jan 25, 2005
    7
    I'd be willing to bet the reviewer at the Alternative Press is a serious homophobe.