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A brave and inventive album that refuses to be held down by conventional barriers of genre or style.
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This time the group finds a better balance of the simple and the strange, making Loud Like Nature their most exciting album since Avant Hard.
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Compelling. Devastating. Amazing. And rocks like a bastard.
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ResonanceThis is some of the most fascinating stuff that these freaks of nature have come up with yet. [#36, p.62]
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MojoHas more to do with Primal Scream's Evil heat than any arched-eyebrow electro-clashers. [Dec 2002, p.113]
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Alternative PressLoud Like Nature contains all the traits that make Add N To (X) so captivating: blood, brains and lots of loin friction. [Dec 2002, p.77]
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Add N to (X) have retained their sense of direction and honed their sound into a powerful and persuasive entity.
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Q MagazineThis is an album which manages the rare trick of being accessible and head-warpingly barmy both at the same time. [Nov 2002, p.96]
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"Loud Like Nature" is hard to take seriously, but it shows that those old analog treasures still have a few good songs left in them.
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All this variety is to be commended, but a lot of the tracks here sound like unfinished sketches.
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MixerTheir most cohesive work to date. [Nov 2002, p.80]
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UrbIt's almost a relief when the album hangs up, like talking to a crazy and exhausting friend who didn't get the memo that we're all supposed to be zombie-d out like it's 1982 right now. [Dec 2002, p.88]
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UncutDespite the lacerating electro-glam of "Total All Out Water" and "Sheez Minie," it's melodic as hell. [Nov 2002, p.121]
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BlenderThere's something forgettable and half-finished about a lot of it. [#11, p.124]
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 4 out of 5
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Mixed: 1 out of 5
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Oct 29, 2010
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BenjaminBunnyAug 12, 2003Not anywhere as fresh or exciting as their first two records, "Loud Like Nature" continues their slow descent into listenable blandness.