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Zero Image
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  • Summary: More than 35 years after the Scottish punk band released its debut album Can't Stand the Rezillos in 1978 (and then split up four months later), the sophomore release features three of the original members, who reformed in 2001.
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  • Record Label: Metropolis
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival, Punk Revival
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Alternative Press
    Mar 10, 2015
    80
    The Rezillos might be your parents' age, but they rock. [Apr 2014, p.93]
  2. Magnet
    Mar 12, 2015
    75
    The Rezillos have lost little in terms of sweaty, cranky boogie-rock fervor that they and the Cramps helped put on the map. [No. 118, p.61]
  3. Mar 10, 2015
    70
    At once iconic, and yet still fiercely non-conformist, the singular appeal of these punk pioneers is as powerful today as it ever was.
  4. Mar 10, 2015
    60
    Hearteningly, much of it sounds enviably fresh, and its 12 tracks crackle with contemporary energy even if a few of the riffs are a mite grungier these days. It is, however, a little south of perfect.
  5. Mar 10, 2015
    60
    The band manages a reasonable re-creation of the Ramones-esque sound the band delivered in its salad days. But if Zero comes within driving distance of the classic sound of the Rezillos, it seriously misses the mark in terms of feel.
  6. Classic Rock Magazine
    Mar 30, 2015
    60
    Little has changed in the schlocky-horror junk-shop aesthetic.... However, the polished and emotive power-pop chuggers She's The Bad One and Sorry About Tomorrow show more midlife maturity. [May 2015, p.103]
  7. Uncut
    Mar 30, 2015
    60
    A follow-up on which original members Eugene Reynolds and Fay Fife seek only to reanimate the spiky, sparky spirit of '78. They mostly succeed. [May 2015, p.80]

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