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Q MagazineAug 16, 2011Brain-melting return from digital hardcore heroes. [Sept. 2011, p. 103]
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Jun 30, 2011On this new album, it's not so much a problem that they remain stuck in the 90s politically, but more that their music seems so irrelevant sonically and willing to wallow in a mid-tempo techno-metal goth-night ghetto.
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Jun 27, 2011To put it simply, Is This Hyperreal? suffers not because the band made a bad album, but because this is the fourth time they've repeated the formula.
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UncutJun 17, 2011They're marching to a '90s beat, like the internet never happened and fresh tools were never invented. [Jul 2011, p.77]
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Jul 7, 2011They're not teenagers anymore, but you'd never know it from listening to them. That's not exactly a compliment.
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Jul 27, 2011Needless to be said, hardcore ATR fans would most probably appreciate this record for the sake of nostalgia, and so be it.
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Jun 22, 2011Returning after 11 years of officially not existing, what's left of ATR could've focused their energies on kicking lots of ass. Instead, they indulge spoken-wordy, freshman-year non-profundities that mostly siphon energy from the get-up-and-f*ck-some-shit-up ethos present on a few okay tracks like "Activate" and "Codebreaker."
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Jun 21, 2011This time around, ATR's protest platitudes ("Are you ready to testify?") and electronic skronk-thud ("Digital Decay," with female member Nic Endo holding forth on Internet freedom), sound awkwardly dated.