Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Rancid: New CD reviews compiled

To celebrate their show at Red Rocks tonight (which, hopefully won't be rained out), I am dedicating this post to reviews on their new CD Let The Dominoes Fall.

Rolling Stone says: "The stats tell the story: 19 songs, 45 minutes, dozens of slogans bellowed over buzzing major chords. The first Rancid album following a six-year recording hiatus is a Rancid record par excellence � a cannonball blast of punk classicism, alternating between galloping double-time punk pogos and the soulful swing that co-frontmen Tim Armstrong and Lars Frederiksen learned from the Clash."

Boston Globe says: "
Sometimes observing that a band keeps making the same record is an insult. Not so with Rancid - and not when the records are this good."

Spin says: "The sunny brutalism of Rancid's East Bay ska-thrash has lost nary a step and their ethical-emotional rigor is as sweet as it is pure. They repo the melody from 1995's 'Ruby Soho' to sing about feeling 'disconnected from the country I love'; blaze through Iraq/media/Katrina gripes; and write with working-class empathy about a soldier, a stripper, and punk rock itself -- 'a place where everyone can belong.'"

The New York Times says: "There are sharp lyrics, lovely harmonies at the hook and a pair of raucous guitar minisolos, a minute apart, which constitute this album�s most explicit moment of Rancid reaching beyond itself for something greater, and getting it."

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