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Chain and the Gang

Music's Not for Everyone

Second album of post-punk garage-blues from Washington DC band fronted by Ian Svenonius

ADM rating[?]: 5.5
Label: K Records
UK Release date: 28/02/2011
US Release date: 22/02/2011

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7.0 | PopMatters

The album fares much better when Svenonius isn’t treating songs as diatribes
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6.6 | Pitchfork

A modest pleasure and a fine addition to Svenonius' catalog
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6.0 | All Music

Overall, it's a darker and more uneven album than the debut, but notwithstanding a few oddities, it's a respectable follow-up
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6.0 | Spin

When the band's clattering, it's great fun, but leave the tongue-in-cheek (or is it?) spoken-word title track at home and release the rock instead
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4.0 | Tiny Mix Tapes

The last one-third of the album is particularly regrettable, due to the fact that it reprises two of the record's previous cuts but actually succeeds in making them worse
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