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9.1
28445
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A.V. Club
Jitters with anarchic glee
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9.0
28370
9.0 |
No Ripcord
Balancing the rhythmic tension of Postcard Records with the snotty viciousness of late 70s California hardcore punk, Iceage can stand proud for inadvertently fusing a miscellany of homogeneous influences into a bracing new sound
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9.0
30393
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Blurt
Clocking in at a scant 25 minutes, Brigade is the sound of a band in the center of a sonic peninsula where English post-punk, Eastern European goth and North American hardcore meet
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9.0
31655
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NME
The band bring diabolical energy to even the most generically thrashy moments. Print edition only
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9.0
35114
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BBC
A record that’s easily as good as any punk release you’ll hear in 2011
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8.4
28780
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Pitchfork
A recording whose snare hits and basslines announce themselves with real fury
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8.2
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Beats Per Minute
Though the band can get sloppy at points, perhaps even a bit repetitive, Iceage have crafted some very memorable tracks here
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8.0
29565
8.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Barely a second wasted to gasp for air amidst the squall of a band on invigorating form
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8.0
29577
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PopMatters
The quartet’s mixing-and-matching of slice-and-dice riffs, dark-pop mood, and grunge heft is a winning formula
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8.0
29626
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Drowned In Sound
It’s all tension and release, with barely a second wasted to gasp for air amidst the squall of a band on invigorating form
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8.0
32652
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Uncut
The dark post-punk energies at work here are potent indeed. Print edition only
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8.0
33097
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Rave Magazine
Iceage simply aren’t caustic enough to remain property of the jaded, quasi-intellectual defectives who relish in the painful atonality of noise punk
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Their record can sound like a future “remember-them?” debut, brim with the right mix of unrefined blitz
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7.0
32338
7.0 |
The Quietus
Efficient, highly evolved, and dangerously self-aware. The shape of punk to come? Not exactly. But compared to Iceage, 99 per-cent of current revivalists are men in rubber suits
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7.0
28821
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
Wicked guitar shards poke out of the bruising, twisting rumble as singer Elias Rønnenfelt fires off modernist doom chants
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7.0
31463
7.0 |
DIY
Clocking in at a mere 24 minutes, 'New Brigade' is crammed with indecipherable lyrics, distorted bass lines and bursts of noise-driven melody
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7.0
28371
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
Sees the group continue to rip from the history of punk to make something decidedly fresh
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6.5
29670
6.5 |
Bowlegs
There is a kind of Libertines/Clash element to Iceage, but with a savage teenage aggression driving their sound
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5.0
31575
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The Digital Fix
New Brigade isn't pissed off enough - and the nihilism (if it's really there) is, ironically, too blank
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