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  • Summary: Sub Pop collects the four full-length albums recorded by the 1980s Australian post punk rock trio feedtime together in a four disc box set.
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  1. Apr 4, 2012
    90
    Individually and together, these records are as potent, squalling, and beautiful as when they were issued.
  2. Jul 26, 2012
    89
    It's unclear whether the stunningly simple sound of 1985's feedtime was forged by artistic primitivism or limitations in musicianship, but its monotonic songs ride feeling rather than melody, and when it's good, like "Fastbuck" springing outlaw quatrain, "I got a Pontiac, gasoline, grab the cash, split the scene," it's paralyzing.
  3. Apr 4, 2012
    80
    The Australian trio feedtime's 1980s recordings, which are collected on The Abberant Years box set, prove them to be traditionalists of the best sort.
  4. Apr 4, 2012
    80
    Listen to all of The Aberrant Years, and you'll probably get too caught up in feedtime's bracing songs to think much about bands that came after them.
  5. Apr 6, 2012
    80
    It's not pretty music by any means, but it's got a killer lowlife swagger.
  6. Mojo
    Apr 25, 2012
    80
    Essential listening for serious-low-life connoisseurs. [May 2012, p.101]
  7. Apr 4, 2012
    60
    Sub Pop commendably delivers an anthology from a prime influence on their hometown heroes Mudhoney, and Feedtime's return to the shelves proves timely.
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