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9.0
50968
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
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9.0
51240
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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8.6
51089
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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8.5
51105
8.5 |
The 405
An engaging listen, filled with small intricacies which continue to be discovered play after play
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8.5
51144
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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8.5
51287
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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8.5
51209
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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8.3
50939
8.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
It’s ultimately about the raw, aggressive, and relentless energy of four young men
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8.0
51028
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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8.0
50828
8.0 |
BBC
There’s real tension in there – and soul, too
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8.0
50829
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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8.0
50830
8.0 |
The Skinny
Emotional, adrenalised hardcore with post-punk ambitions, and a beating heart of thwarted, fuck-everything catharsis
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8.0
50879
8.0 |
Uncut
12 tracks of metallic guitars and martial drums. Print edition only
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8.0
50885
8.0 |
Q
The quartet smarten up the belligerence. Print edition only
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8.0
51120
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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8.0
51140
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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8.0
51081
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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8.0
51158
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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8.0
51199
8.0 |
Spin
It's smarter, faster, catchier and noisier than their debut
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8.0
51376
8.0 |
State
An urgent affair which hurtles towards an eponymous, jangling album closer and leaves nothing to be unpacked
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8.0
51385
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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7.8
51390
7.8 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
A monumental work that declares the arrival of a confident, fully-realized band
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7.5
51147
7.5 |
A.V. Club
This is a moodier record, and a far less catchy one
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7.4
51207
7.4 |
Paste Magazine
The savagery this band encompasses is something to behold
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7.0
51720
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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7.0
52146
7.0 |
Blurt
You're Nothing is an album full of power - power which makes you think and react viscerally
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7.0
51291
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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7.0
51153
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
An emotionally intense racket, with that rare mix of aggression and delicacy
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7.0
51084
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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6.0
51040
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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6.0
50944
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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6.0
51103
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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5.0
51094
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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