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Aug 30, 2011A personal manifesto, WWRS falls somewhere between the Pogues at their most urgent and Tom Joad-era Springsteen at his most feverish.
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Aug 30, 2011World Wide Rebel Songs, is, without question, a welcome call to arms.
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Aug 30, 2011What Morello lacks in subtlety, he makes up for in visceral feeling.
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Aug 30, 2011World Wide Rebel Songs is Morello at his most confident and musically expansive.
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Sep 28, 2011There is a sense of funk and bounce characterised by RATM on display here that gives the songs an underlying sense of conviction on top of Morello's already biting vocal approach.
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Aug 30, 2011From start to finish, you are in Morello's world. It can be dark. It can be cheery. But most of all, it's his.
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Aug 30, 2011Morello's still swinging: "Save the hammer for the Man," he advises on his newest, which includes Rage-style agit-metal and a folk rocker where Iraq soldiers take out their commanders.
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Sep 14, 2011His voice here, a husky and burly drawl not too far removed from Johnny Cash's, is a constant delight throughout and is seemingly tailor-made for launching his volleys of criticism and cries for activism.
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Sep 1, 2011It takes a certain like-minded political sensibility to wholly appreciate both the music and the mantra, but rebels in search of a cause will likely share sympathy for Morello's fervent muse.
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Alternative PressAug 19, 2011The addition of electric instruments and Morello's nasal speak-singing do make Rebel Songs read a little like a radicalized Dylan. [Sep 2011, p.116]
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Aug 31, 2011Rebel Songs is too much of a mixed bag, though, blaring hard rock on one track, then walking a bass line with chimes on another, then playing solo folk for which this project's always been known.
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Aug 22, 2011While World Wide Rebel Songs exudes confidence, its execution is like attempting to cross too many "T"s with your eyes closed: odds are that you'll get one or two right, but it's impossible to consistently hit the mark.
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Aug 18, 2011Only the electric "It Begins Tonight," righteous of riff and bonkers of solo, plays to his strengths; the rest is like watching Michael Jordan bat .235 in Birmingham.
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Kerrang!Sep 8, 2011There is nothing incendiary here. [27 Aug 2011, p.51]
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Aug 30, 2011As a folksinger, he undeniably blows: There's simply nothing appealing or compelling about his forced, tuneless, featureless vocals, and without a strong frontman like Zack De La Rocha or Chris Cornell, flaccid attempts at rocking out like "It Begins Tonight" render Rebel Songs even weaker than if he'd stuck strictly to folk.