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9.0
93550
9.0 |
Drowned In Sound
The first in a potentially endless stream of politically charged punk rock records this year. However, it’s extremely hard to see any of them trumping this glorious, if uncomfortable, masterpiece
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8.5
93327
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Uncomfortable in places? There's no doubt. An assault on the senses? Definitely. If Why Love Now were a person, you'd cross the road for fear of passing them in the street
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8.5
93323
8.5 |
The Quietus
As soiled, sordid and scintillating as ever
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8.0
93487
8.0 |
The Guardian
A fun, debauched, ear-perforating din
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8.0
93328
8.0 |
Crack
Korvette aims his crosshair at the stupidity of male peacocking
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8.0
93350
8.0 |
Loud And Quiet
At the core of the album sits ‘I’m A Man’, a song that simultaneously blindsides you and pulls the record together
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8.0
93450
8.0 |
Clash
If you've heard any other Pissed Jeans album then you know what you're in for sonically. The music matches the lyrics blow for blow
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8.0
93553
8.0 |
DIY
An urgent, hard-driving assault
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8.0
93557
8.0 |
The Observer
Tuneful, witty filth
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8.0
93607
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Why Love Now is a 37 minute horror show which reveals just how terminal their nation has become and their frustration isn’t just palpable, it’s intoxicating and addictive
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8.0
93326
8.0 |
The Skinny
Finds them operating at a similarly scintillating capacity, grinding down on the ugliness buried in the mundanity of modern life and crushing it into the wreckage of metal and post-punk
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7.9
93634
7.9 |
Pitchfork
The sludge-punk band’s cleanest, most hi-fidelity album, and their deepest dive into the inglorious male psyche yet
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7.7
93687
7.7 |
Earbuddy
Ballsy punk rock about gender relations packed with humor and good intentions
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7.5
93614
7.5 |
Spectrum Culture
Pissed Jeans certainly have their MO down
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7.0
93652
7.0 |
Exclaim
Why Love Now shows Pissed Jeans' songwriting reaching new peaks of awareness and focus, all the while remaining true to their brand of dissonant punk
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7.0
93453
7.0 |
PopMatters
Pissed Jeans rage against the everyday on cynical and caustic punk return
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7.0
93478
7.0 |
All Music
It's grim stuff, but it's shot through with just enough dark humor and nervy, pit-worthy energy to propel a proper madcap night out; just don't expect to wake up the next morning
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7.0
93324
7.0 |
Under The Radar
The best sounding record in Pissed Jeans' catalog. Print edition only
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7.0
97832
7.0 |
Punk News
Overall, the heavy riffs and thick basslines protrude with catchy-enough melodies so that Matt Korvette's caustic growls and abrasive vocals can dig in -- typically at that
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6.0
93325
6.0 |
Mojo
In a world gone increasingly crazy, their scourging hi-jinks make more and more sense. Print edition only
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6.0
93496
6.0 |
Evening Standard
The Pennsylvania rust-belt punks sound like mud spiked with glass shards on album five
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2.0
93990
2.0 |
State
Why Love Now could be played on loop in Guantanamo Bay. Never mind a toilet flushing, it’s the musical equivalent of hell
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