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The experimentation falls flat in places, but it's still exhilarating to hear something as stock as garage-rock fed through the Play-Doh Fun Factory of Collins' deranged brain.
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Maybe Mick Collins can't save the world, but he's got plenty of worthwhile things to say on this album, and his global angst beats Bono's for sheer entertainment value any day of the week.
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MojoA giddy chaos of fuzz-noise and thundering drums ensures these sclectic experiments still sound like no one else but The dirtbombs. [May 2008, p.114]
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This is the sound of an extremely skilled group of musicians working on every cylinder and impulse.
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UncutWe Have You Surrounded has more variety than 2003's excellent "Dangerous Magical Noise." [May 2008, p.94]
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SpinWe have You Surrounded is a terrific accessible hard-rock album deserving more than cult attention. [Apr 2008, p.94]
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They're moments when, perhaps more so than on any previous record, The Dirtbombs sound like a band of five musicians with distinct input, rather than the many arms of Mick.