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You're Nothing

Iceage

You're Nothing

Second album from the Copenhagen punk rockers

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7.7

Label
Matador
UK Release date
18/02/2013
US Release date
18/02/2013
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  1. 9.0 |   NME

    You're Nothing is a sort of toast: to loud music, hard drinking and the energy of the unbroken. Print edition only

  2. 9.0 |   No Ripcord

    It’s hard not to get lost in the beaten and bruised squalor Iceage expels on their grittiest – and best – album yet
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  3. 8.6 |   Pitchfork

    These are the sentiments of early 70s NYC punk made by kids who can look back on hardcore and post-punk to add fuel to it
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  4. 8.5 |   The 405

    An engaging listen, filled with small intricacies which continue to be discovered play after play
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  5. 8.5 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    An intelligent and thrilling collection of existential punk-rock that has so much more to offer than those two paltry words, “punk” or “rock”, could ever suggest
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  6. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    Twelve tracks, 28 minutes, no repetition, boundless energy: as 'In Haze' puts it rather nicely, "this is the speed of youth"
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  7. 8.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    Iceage mine the clangorous middle ground between traditional punk structures and the often sterile world of Joy Division-indebted post-punk
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  8. 8.3 |   Pretty Much Amazing

    It’s ultimately about the raw, aggressive, and relentless energy of four young men
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  9. 8.0 |   All Music

    Hearing a young band find its voice like this makes for incredibly exciting music, possibly more exciting in practice than the bombast of the group's earliest material
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  10. 8.0 |   BBC

    There’s real tension in there – and soul, too
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  11. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    If you didn’t like it first time around, you’re not going to now. For those that did, Iceage’s second album is familiar in its thrilling danger
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  12. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Emotional, adrenalised hardcore with post-punk ambitions, and a beating heart of thwarted, fuck-everything catharsis
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  13. 8.0 |   Uncut

    12 tracks of metallic guitars and martial drums. Print edition only

  14. 8.0 |   Q

    The quartet smarten up the belligerence. Print edition only

  15. 8.0 |   DIY

    'You're Nothing' is the magnificent transition from teens powered by punk angst to men mastering aggressive rock songs
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  16. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    A rare album where you can tell the artists put everything into it and you get just as much out of it
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  17. 8.0 |   The Observer

    Beneath the noise, the songs seem more fully realised, more memorable, than on their at times fragmentary debut
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  18. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Officially worth the hype they have generated, and are capable of a whole lot more than we ever anticipated
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  19. 8.0 |   Spin

    It's smarter, faster, catchier and noisier than their debut
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  20. 8.0 |   State

    An urgent affair which hurtles towards an eponymous, jangling album closer and leaves nothing to be unpacked
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  21. 8.0 |   Art Rocker

    A refreshingly uncompromising second outing where the raw edges of their debut have not been cleaned up
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  22. 7.8 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    A monumental work that declares the arrival of a confident, fully-realized band
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  23. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    This is a moodier record, and a far less catchy one
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  24. 7.4 |   Paste Magazine

    The savagery this band encompasses is something to behold
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  25. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    This is a work of refined power, both recapturing and emboldening the essence of what justifiably brought Iceage to widespread consciousness first time around
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  26. 7.0 |   Blurt

    You're Nothing is an album full of power - power which makes you think and react viscerally
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  27. 7.0 |   Under The Radar

    You're Nothing is a punk record, though Iceage's broad creative palette pushes constantly at the limits of that term
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  28. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    An emotionally intense racket, with that rare mix of aggression and delicacy
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  29. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    It’s an intriguing mixture of pure punk, post punk, and first-wave emo – think Fugazi or Rites Of Spring - though the moments of deliberate discordance are as frequent as the buried melodic gems
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  30. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Comfortable and confident enough to add rather than subtract to how they play and conduct their musical affairs
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  31. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Despite its abrasiveness, You’re Nothing is resolutely conservative in its insular aim of pleasing the only audience that matters: Iceage themselves
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  32. 6.0 |   The Scotsman

    Invigorating as it sounds, the buzz doesn’t last the way it might at a gig – to do that with an album, they really need stronger songs
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  33. 5.0 |   Slant Magazine

    Instead of a thrilling, us-against-the-world punk mentality, it feels like the band is only making music for their own sake
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