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8.0
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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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8.0
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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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7.9
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7.9 |
Paste Magazine
Hard-charging group’s ninth album returns to the noisy sound of their early LPs
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7.5
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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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7.5
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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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7.4
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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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7.1
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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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6.5
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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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6.0
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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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