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Detroit punk rockers come out swinging on feisty third album.
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The Von Bondies' long-in-coming follow-up Love, Hate And Then There's You continues in that arena-ready modern-rock mode, but it's considerably brighter--even campier.
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Love Hate and Then There's You is the Von Bondies' most consistent album yet.
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Over punchy, driving riffs and crackling drum work, Stollsteimer howls like a guy with much to be pissed about, while the sharp production and dark pop hooks offer a vision of garage rock that's more grand than grimy.
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Love, Hate, and Then There’s You may not be a sign of the band’s growth, but it succeeds in capturing what the Von Bondies are and have been best at.
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As a spirited reintroduction, the album is by no means too little, but given the time the band has been away, it may be too late.
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Perhaps that’s a tad cruel, but to their credit, what the Von Bondies lack in originality, they make up for in style.
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These Detroit rockers emerge with an album that's pop-friendly but raucous enough to park in a Motor City garage.
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Alternative PressLike a football running back, it's when the band put their heads down and sprint straight ahead that they score. [mar 2009, p.113]
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Q MagazineThe new problem is a lack of texture: in aiming for big hooks and big bucks, they've thrown variety out the window. [Jun 2009, p.134]
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Where their earlier records thrived on the tension between Stollsteimer's gut-spilling confessions and the band's raucous, raw-powered attack, on Love, Hate and Then There's You, we get all the pleading, but without the violent, cathartic release.
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Its latest album, Love Hate and Then There's You, is a stereotypical dilution of the Stooges/MC5 canon, there are a few unexpectedly tight tunes that hit as hard as, well, a sock in the eye.
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The riffs are tight, but not so fresh.
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Perhaps it was the pressure of following breakthrough hit ‘C’mon C’mon’, or some serious Jack White payback voodoo, but now, where should have roared a gutsy, triumphant comeback squeaks a patchy, mediocre-in-places record.
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Love, Hate And Then There’s You isn’t entirely devoid of entertainment value--Stollsteimer’s misguided attempts to replicate the successful sound of the Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, the Strokes and other alt-rock radio staples at the time these songs were conceived turns out to be quite funny, however unintentional the humour.
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MojoStollsteimer, it seems, is still in search of his own musical identity. [ Jun 2009, p.96]
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UncutAll round, an unsettling development. [Jun 2009, p.109]
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JoeTFeb 7, 2009GREAT Album!!! good pop music!!!
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johnnyqFeb 5, 2009The band sucks now after two members left the band.
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[Anonymous]Feb 5, 2009