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New York City

The Men

New York City

Ninth studio album from the Brooklyn post-hardcore punk five-piece produced by Trevor Harrison

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Fuzz Club
UK Release date
03/02/2023
US Release date
03/02/2023
  1. 8.0 |   Slant Magazine

    New York City sees the Men attacking their no-frills rock with a raw passion that they haven’t displayed this plainly in some time
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  2. 8.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    The Men, rather anonymously, have spent the last decade and a half bending and breaking rock ‘n’ roll to their own agenda and ‘New York City’ proves that when they strip everything back to basics they still maintain their own insatiable raw power
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  3. 7.9 |   Paste Magazine

    Hard-charging group’s ninth album returns to the noisy sound of their early LPs
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  4. 7.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    Their most direct record for some time, a collection of hard rock staples mixed with their punk roots that the band uses to pay homage to the legends of their city’s glorious music scene, and do so perfectly
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  5. 7.5 |   Spectrum Culture

    The Men have sounded more scaled back and scuzzed-up than this, but they’ve never sounded this big
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  6. 7.4 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    The Men have given up on trying any sort of innovation here, and instead seem to have set out to simply jam some rockin’ tunes at high volume. Call me a simple man, but yeah, it’s pretty great
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  7. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    The Brooklyn band’s ninth album is an unpretentious garage-punk racket that wears its analog heart on flannel-clad sleeves
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  8. 6.5 |   Under The Radar

    Captures all the grit and grime you’d want from The Men, but comes up short compared to their transcendent, melodic best
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  9. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Although at times it's a little too knowingly shambolic, the band nail the mood on "Peace Of Mind", while the outstanding Stonesy number "Anyway I Find You" finds a great bridge between their two styles. Print edition only


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