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- Summary: The seventh full-length release for the British indie rock band began as four songs recorded with producer Steve Albini in 2011 and now includes six songs they created over three days five years later.
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- Record Label: Sonic Blew
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 8 out of 13
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Mixed: 5 out of 13
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Aug 11, 2017Having made records with Johnny Marr and added all manner of elements to their sound, the band’s latest is a brilliant reminder that Ryan, Gary and Ross are at their most powerful when they strip back their sound to its scrappy core.
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MagnetAug 15, 2017With a snarl on their lisp, drums set to bash and guitars red-lining all the way, snotty new Cribs anthems such as "Year Of Hate" and "Partisan" shine within Albini's typical sonic verite approach to recording. [No. 145, p.53]
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Aug 18, 2017Because 24 7 Rock Star Shit is just a great record. The requisite acoustic number (Sticks And Twigs) is heartfelt and pretty, there’s a sleek poppiness which can’t help but shine.
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Aug 11, 2017While it doesn't feel quite as honed as some of the Cribs' other albums, 24-7 Rock Star Shit is a lot of fun, as well as more proof that the band's eternal tug of war between grit and polish still generates excitement.
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Aug 10, 201724-7 falters when it tries anything except balls-to-the-wall, though.
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Aug 14, 2017This back-to-basics flipside to 2015’s poppy For All My Sisters has little to offer those not already positively disposed towards the Cribs’ basics--mordant lyrics, tetanus-jab guitars and raucous woah-ohh-ohh choruses--but the likes of Dendrophobia, with its haywire licks and raw scream of “we can’t afford each other”, and In Your Palace have an irresistible energy.
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Aug 10, 201724/7 Rock Star Shit has to be one of the all-time great rock’n’roll titles; but sadly, lurking behind it is an album which struggles to fulfil such vagabond promise. Rather, it seems terminally enervated: most of these songs have a shrugging, slovenly manner.
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