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MagnetDec 19, 2014Overdrive showcases barer instrumentations and peeled-back song structures. [#110, p.59]
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UncutDec 19, 2014While the fuzz-filled punk vibe is still present and correct, there's also a hard rock thread running through Overdrive. [May 2014, p.80]
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Dec 19, 2014The turgid ‘Robots From Hell’ aside, they carry it off.
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Dec 19, 2014With all of their untameable if bizarre likeability, Shonen Knife are clearly a band that can just keep on giving.
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Dec 19, 2014One wishes that the group took a little more time, if not in honing their lyrics, then in not ripping off classic bands of yore, as there is something to be said for taking one’s influences and pureeing it in a blender, rather than simply just copying what came before, which, unfortunately, Shonen Knife sometimes lapse into here.
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Dec 19, 2014By Shonen Knife's standards, Overdrive does sound like some sort of hard rock album, and the attempts to make like Kiss, Thin Lizzy, or Deep Purple come off better than one might expect, though Yamano's guitar skills are less impressive than those of the average metal axe slinger.
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Dec 19, 2014There’s nothing on Overdrive that’s going to change your mind about Shonen Knife; if nothing else, it’s impressive that they’ve managed to spin so many records out of such a derivative sound.
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Dec 19, 2014Ultimately, it’s disappointing that after Pop Tune, Shonen Knife seem to be on autopilot, creating songs that could have appeared on any one of their previous records.