by
Coachwhips
- Record Label: Narnack
- Release Date: Jan 25, 2005
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It's hard to believe at first listen, but they've got nuance.
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Entertainment WeeklyThe band's brand of anti-melody, two-chord thrash... is starting to feel punishingly stale. [28 Jan 2005, p.84]
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Either you’ll go nuts for this or run screaming from it.
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Another goddamn home run.
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SpinStuff this simple can turn into art that's fantastic or a fantastic disaster. Coachwhips walk the line masterfully. [Feb 2005, p.91]
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The band continuously recycles itself into a feeble mass.
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A blur of primal guitar stomp wrapped in a menacing swirl of vintage organs and distorted vocals.
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What makes Coachwhips bigger than the rock n'roll n'amphetamines and extreme petting that inevitably gets etched on them is sheer, dirty, bone-corroding, untamed noise.
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Alternative PressAlthough memorable hooks are few and far between... there's no denying the album's ferocity. [Mar 2005, p.132]
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No less of a passion-scratched, damp-sheet-scrumple of an affair than its predecessors.
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MojoFor the most part still playing it breakneck and fuzz-covered, their trademark garage-scuzz-meets-hardcore blitzkreig is if anything more rough-riffed and faster. [Mar 2005, p.101]
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Unlike previous recordings like 2003's Get Yer Body Next ta Mine, Coachwhips covet a reliable, freight train approach and derail.
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Another album to blow up the cemetery to.
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New Musical Express (NME)Frontman John Dwyer still sounds like he's singing through a kazoo, the drummer is still obviously banging away on cardboard boxes and keyboardist Val-Tronic plays like all her fingers are broken. [5 Mar 2005, p.50]
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MagnetDoesn't offer much in the way of anything appealing. [#67, p.90]
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While not a live album at all, PB & J does indeed live with its own throbbing, messy scariness that demands that the volume be turned all the way up to 11, threatening to eat your brain if you dare leave it lower.
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benfFeb 11, 2005