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- Summary:
- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 8 out of 12
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Mixed: 4 out of 12
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Negative: 0 out of 12
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Probably the best post-punk album you'll buy all year.
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This comp makes one thing perfectly clear: for a host of bands so readily compared to the same tiny stable of influences-- "sounding like a modern-day Gang of Four..."-- there sure is a hell of a lot of diversity between them.
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Q MagazineMost of it... suggests that New York's time is, once again, imminent. [Aug 2003, p.119]
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Cannibalising a musical canvas splattered with decades of paint, little here is truly original and the quality veers throughout, as is inevitable from the recordings of one - albeit artistically ferocious - city.
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A solid collection of the most talked-about bands in the New York underground.
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This is a lot closer to the type of compilation you'd get with an issue of CMJ than something special.
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UncutAside from [Interpol]... the Yes groups sound just as narrow and constricted as their scuzzy East Village forebears. [Aug 2003, p.120]