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A stellar accomplishment from a truly singular band.
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Excellent Italian Greyhound is vintage Shellac: stark, razorous and blackly comic, lurching into whatever time signature happens to possess drummer Tod Trainer.
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Excellent Italian Greyhound is everything you’d want from a new Shellac record - terrific-sounding, expertly performed and gleefully atonal as ever, but it’s live that this legendary three-piece’s performance art really comes to life as more than the sum of its casually-displayed parts.
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The sound remains unmistakably Shellac: guttural, sarcastic, and chock-full of anger.
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Even at their silliest, even when they're treading water, no one else sounds quite like Shellac, and anyone who professes to be a serious music fan without having spent quality time with the band's albums should be forced to familiarize themselves. This just wouldn't be the first record I'd force on them.
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Greyhound has a loose, almost improvisational minimalism that straddles the line between engrossing and off-putting.
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Greyhound lacks the raw immediacy of their first three albums.
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It's a given that Excellent Italian Greyhound is a masterful offering of jagged minimalist rock from a seasoned and almost ridiculously venerable band, but its mastery is expressed in exclusively expected ways.
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Well as befits such a completely uncompromising visionary/awkward pain in the arse (delete one if you can be bothered) it veers between the preposterously awful 'Genuine Lullabelle' with its bewildering spoken word passages and the awesome wire taut assault of 'Be Prepared'.
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On Excellent Italian Greyhound they deliver the expected fistful of vitriolic by-number chuggers.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Nov 25, 2014
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seandJul 29, 2007