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Apr 14, 2023If you ever liked guitar-driven blues punk, whether in its 1970s first run or the aughts revival, you need to hear this record.
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Feb 6, 2023New York City sees the Men attacking their no-frills rock with a raw passion that they haven’t displayed this plainly in some time.
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Feb 6, 2023After forays into other sounds over the past decade, The Men have come back to their old digs, kicked in the door and cranked up the amplifiers. It’s as if they had never been away.
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Feb 8, 2023They fire back in 2023 with their most direct record for some time, a collection of hard rock staples mixed with their punk roots that the band uses to pay homage to the legends of their city’s glorious music scene, and do so perfectly.
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Feb 6, 2023The Men have given up on trying any sort of innovation here, and instead seem to have set out to simply jam some rockin’ tunes at high volume. Call me a simple man, but yeah, it’s pretty great.
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Feb 6, 2023New York City is less a reflection of the sanitized, hyper-gentrified New York of today than a reaction against it—sneering from the paint-peeling dive bars, flipping off the real-estate vultures, and summoning the snottiest ghosts of the city’s punk past.
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Feb 21, 2023New York City, then, captures all the grit and grime you’d want from The Men, but comes up short compared to their transcendent, melodic best.
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UncutFeb 6, 2023Although at times it's a little too knowingly shambolic, the band nail the mood on "Peace Of Mind", while the outstanding Stonesy number "Anyway I Find You" finds a great bridge between their two styles. [Mar 2023, p.32]