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MojoApr 4, 2011Few, if any of 2009's more high profile rock releases could match the adrenalin charge of Death's 34 year-old debut. [Mar 2011, p.114]
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Feb 1, 2011Nothing on the new set is as mind-blowing as The Whole World's alternately assaultive and trippy Politicians In My Eyes, but in some ways, the Hackneys sounded even more ahead of their time when they were just dicking around.
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Jan 27, 2011Little was done to clean them up: they're rough, woolly, and loose, but they rock.
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Jan 27, 2011We get a brief chance to eavesdrop on a band of unique genius at its most raw, its most prankish and its most fun. It almost makes up for the chills, the sweat and the free cans of watery domestic.
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Under The RadarMar 9, 2011Though the closing bass and drum solos aren't essential listening, this slate of recordings provides a welcome addition to the slight catalog of a band that deserves to have been name-dropped by punk historians for years. [Feb 2011, p.74]
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UncutFeb 1, 2011The collection is a little frontloaded, petering out with some tracks of solo guitar, bass and drums. [Feb 2011, p.82]
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Jan 27, 2011Spiritual-Mental-Physical is occasionally slight, and there are fewer developed ideas than a real album release; for every punk etching on the wall, there is an aimless jam that was undoubtedly more fun to play than listen to.
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Jan 27, 2011This set of hissy practice tapes varies greatly in quality with the demented trashing of a Beatles melody on "The Masks" and the snotty sneer of "Can You Give Me a Thrill???" abutting stoned instrumentals and solo noodling.
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Mar 4, 2011The surviving Hackneys-bassist/singer Bobby and drummer Dannis-sifted through their early jams, rehearsals and demos for this ragged set of odds and ends.
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Feb 1, 2011Spiritual, Mental, Physical-- a follow-up collection of grotty practice tapes and studio goofs culled from a set of tape reels recently unearthed in a Detroit basement-- is a bit less awe-inspiring.
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Jan 28, 2011The band has undeniable horsepower, driven mostly by Dannis's fantastic drumming, and that strength shows itself in a few key moments here, but the collection is unfortunately padded with half an album's worth of inconsequential rehearsal extracts.
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Jan 27, 2011As a stand-alone collection though, it's vexingly stunted, and padded out with a few unnecessary additions to fill out its barely 30-minute run time.
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Jan 27, 2011What Spiritual, Mental, Physical documents is a group kicking around possibilities that could go somewhere great, but as they appear here, only a handful of these half-cooked ideas deserve an audience.