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This intriguing, dual-singer-fronted band is often lumped with screamo and art-damage pummel outfits, and to be fair, much of this album falls under the "scare the bejeezus out of your parents" rubric. However, not only is their rage ideologically sound, but sonic subtleties abound, with clear links to the blues, T
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This intriguing, dual-singer-fronted band is often lumped with screamo and art-damage pummel outfits, and to be fair, much of this album falls under the "scare the bejeezus out of your parents" rubric. However, not only is their rage ideologically sound, but sonic subtleties abound, with clear links to the blues, the dance floor, even the classical avant-garde showing up on this, their fourth album. The Blood Brothers might even be as great as the Birthday Party were. Check "Live at the Apocalypse Cabaret"--it almost sounds like a (cat being strangled singing a) Rosetta Tharpe cover! "Teen Heat" throbs with a post-disco pulse while "Rats and Rats and Rats for Candy" is a groovy update of the messy, insane math-rock of Scratch Acid. True pop rears its head in "Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck," which sounds like TV on the Radio and Die Kreuzen trying to cover a Le Tigre tune, while during the process they somehow turn into screeching zombies (that’s a compliment). They may’ve started out as another spazzed-out act who listened to At the Drive-In too much, but with Crimes, it’s clear the Bros. are fully-realized musical terrorists all their own. --Mike McGonigal
"Favorite song: "Crimes" (or whichever song I'm listening to)
Favorite lyrics: "Teen Heat"
I wanna tell you about the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.
C'mon and watch him spread his legs and birth another diva yeah.
Prommageddon pit, smash hit. Prommageddon, chart topper.
Your song is gold like the color of piss
The Fifth Horseman stuffs the radio (oh oh oh..oh oh)
with singles until it's sick to it's stomach. (oh oh oh..oh oh)
He scouts the dumpsters for a cobweb guitar
to polish into a supe"
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