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Street Sweeper Social Club

Street Sweeper Social Club

Street Sweeper Social Club

LA based supergroup including Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine and mc Boots Riley from The Coup

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4.5

Label
Cooking Vinyl
UK Release date
16/06/2009
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  1. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Whilst it was unrealistic to expect otherwise of Street Sweeper Social Club, a nagging question remains: with both Morello and Zack De La Rocha (with his One Day As A Lion project) retreading the Rage sound, you can't help but wonder why they don't just go back to the source
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  2. 6.0 |   The Scotsman

    Their self-styled ""revolutionary party jams"" would have more potency if they didn't sound like they were rooted in the mid-90s
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  3. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Plenty of militant, turbo-charged rock-funk with occasional showy displays of fingertip pyrotechnics, and exuberant rhymes on topics from Botox to slumlords
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  4. 6.0 |   Uncut

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  5. 4.0 |   The Independent

    Morello’s chops are best displayed in the concluding solo of “Somewhere In The World”; but too often the turgid funkmetal riffs just prevent the tracks getting airborne
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  6. 4.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Funkadelic-steeped rap metal remind us that smash-the-state yammering is still alive post-Obama.. the problem isn't overheated rhetoric, it's half-baked songs. Revolution requires follow-through, fellas
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  7. 4.0 |   The Sunday Times

    it’s a slight disappointment to hear Riley — one of the few vocal performers out there who might be able to offer an insightful analysis of capitalism’s flaws and failures — reduced simply to shouting louder to compete with Morello’s grinding guitar
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  8. 3.9 |   Pitchfork

    Even as a record of adequate, vaguely politicized mook-rock, it mostly falls flat, whether by lazy lyrics or some uninspired drumming... The touring band already has a new drummer, plus a full-time bassist and rhythm guitarist in place; perhaps the debut can be written off as a rehearsal before everyone involved can contribute their all
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  9. 3.0 |   PopMatters

    Once Street Sweeper Social Club‘s 39 minutes are up, it’s not a stretch to say you won’t return or even remember what just blared from your speakers.
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  10. 3.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    About the only real saving grace on the album is the penultimate track, 'Promenade'. Taking a more bass-heavy, hip-hop direction, the vocals and guitars actually seem to mesh in a more organic way than the rest of the album's karaoke RATM
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