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Jul 9, 2015No Life For Me offers a vital reminder of how sharp these two sound even when they’re stripped of those resources.
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Jul 9, 2015No Life For Me might be fast, but my god, will you enjoy the ride.
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Jul 9, 2015Like a punk rock Watch the Throne, No Life for Me finds two of the genre's leading lights working at the peak of their powers.
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Jul 9, 2015There's much at play here--personalities, loud/soft dynamics, noise vs melody--and Williams and Baldi strike just the right balance.
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Jul 9, 2015No Life for Me may not be a masterpiece, but it does offer a wobbly, hazy shape of a certain kind of punk to come.
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Jul 15, 2015At a brisk 22 minutes, it adopts Baldi’s discontent aggro-angst with William’s more considered, though no less dejected, quiet-loud dynamics. Most of the album is jointly credited and the music also reflects that.
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Jul 15, 2015One or two tracks could have been cut but overall, this is a random yet pleasant surprise. And one that's definitely sure to please fans of both.
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Jul 9, 2015It’s tense throughout, but it’s also endearingly frisky, and the poppiest moments have a tendency of landing at just the right time to stave off any potential noise-rock monotony.
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Jul 20, 2015There are solid hooks scattered all over No Life For Me, and they sound like they could've been knocked out in five minutes--each melodic note notches in the expected place over thrumming power chords and steady drums.