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Jun 20, 2011Pummelling electro punk at it's finest.
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Kerrang!Jun 29, 2011While their sloganeering remains simplistic, the courage of their convictions continues to drive them forward against an unforgiving world in style. [18 Jun 2011, p.51]
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Jun 20, 2011Atari Teenage Riot in 2011 are as raw and self indulgent as they ever were, and while their comeback record won't seal their place in history, those who loved them the first time around will lap it up.
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Jun 20, 2011Indeed with such a raging fire burning through their bellies, this stands up alongside 60 Second Wipe Out as possibly Atari Teenage Riot's most potent collection of songs to date, and what's more, in a climate besieged with apathy and despondence, their relevance today cannot be underestimated.
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Aug 19, 2011Even after a decade away, Atari Teenage Riot are still equally angry and entertaining, and Is This Hyperreal? just may be one of their definitive statements.
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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.