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Le Tigre

Le Tigre

1999

Le Tigre
Album Summary

Le Tigre is the debut studio album of American music trio Le Tigre. It was released October 25, 1999 on Mr. Lady Records. The album combined pop music with the band's feminist political lyrics. It received positive reviews from music critics.

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3.13

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Punk

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Fri Mar 05 2021
4

This sounds like it's the best album from a decade that doesn't exist. It's a weird amalgam of 60s, 80s and punk. If you described this to me in any way, it would be all the things I hate about music. And I fucking love it! This should have been much more of a thing, it should have been emulated, started a trend. How did it not?

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Mon Nov 02 2020
4

Another punk/pop punk/post-punk band that I've only ever heard of and never really given a chance. Le Tigre come out of the blocks swinging and don't let up until they've left a trail of destruction in their wake. They've got a Rudy Giuliani protest song that's relevant 21 years later. Best track: Deceptacon

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Mon Jan 18 2021
5

Really enjoyed. Hard rocking beats with feminist message.

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Wed Aug 25 2021
4

I was expecting punk screaming but this was a really fun album to listen. A good mix of punk and rock with a bit of electronic. Good for a morning jog!

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Wed Jan 20 2021
2

Le Tigre seems a bit lazy on purpose. I appreciate the punk vibe they are apparently going for, but I always thought specifically of "Hot Topic" as a pop-culture store that tries-hard to be a punk-culture store, and by try-hard I don't mean the good kind. I think it's cool that the band pushes for feminism. But I think they push a bit too much, making it their identity instead of just part of who they are. I think if I had heard this album when I was a teenager I would have liked it a lot more than I do today. Now they sound like an audio STD, and I don't want to hang out with the band. I give it 2/5.

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Mon Feb 01 2021
1

A forgettable, boring ass record from a late to the party girl punk group that brought exactly nothing new or entertaining. 1/5

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Fri Oct 08 2021
1

Le Tigre by Le Tigre (1999) Tiny tiny voices scream histrionic bleats about god-knows-what, from a flash-in-the-pan morality that not only doesn’t age well—it doesn’t age at all. Their pronouns are so offensive. The litany of heroes in the musically mechanical “Hot Topic” makes their cookie cutter political/cultural stance clear, but could we get some depth? Or even a bit of detail? Here’s a revealing snippet from “Eau D’Bedroom Dancing”: “There's no time for me to act mature. The only words I know are "more", "more" and "more". No one to criticize me then.” Read some Rimbaud, girls. I picture these songs being sung while the young ladies are on the playground jumping rope. The ‘music’ is stumbled across, not composed; canned, not performed. The recording is flawed with distortion on the lead ‘vocals’ and a horrible mix. The best voice performance on this record is the intro to “Phanta” (you’ll have to listen to get the joke). No gimmick on this 1999 album hadn’t already been done over and over. Even girls cussing in a junior-high-school-sounding timbre. They seem unaware of (more likely unconcerned by) the way this comes across to men. There’s a certain menace at work here. It validates every misogynistic trope. 1/5

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Mon May 24 2021
4

Quite sparky fun pop rocky album -

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Thu Sep 16 2021
4

Cool, fun, bouncy, brief, lo-fi smash. Girls with guitars - can’t go wrong.

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Mon Jan 16 2023
4

Brief story: prior to today, my only exposure to Le Tigre was this godawful song they released through Pitchfork in 2016, in support of Hillary Clinton, called "I'm With Her." I saw it then, and rewatched it today, and both times I've felt like it's possibly the worst piece of art ever created. May have singlehandedly given the election to Trump, just unbelievably embarrassing stuff. What's more punk rock than campaigning for a Clinton? The video is on youtube, with comments disabled (and dislikes don't exist anymore), but you can bet your ass this thing was lampooned to oblivion. So with that as the backdrop, I was gleefully bracing myself for a prequel, bracing for the worst punk shit I've ever heard. But damn, this album's actually really fun. Some really cool, engaging instrumentals, the lyrics are outraged, outrageous, and political in a way that's, at least for me, tongue in cheek and obviously more genuine than anything having to do with Hillary Clinton. "Deceptacon" is a drop dead classic man, I swear I've heard that before. If it's not canonized, it should be. The "what's your take on Cassavetes" track is seriously funny, I don't know if they're expecting us to take this seriously but I had a good time laughing with these songs. "Dude Yr so Crazy" too, just a list of buzzwords, it's so funny. Again, based on the atrocity that they committed in 2016, I'm afraid they may be genuine in all of this, which may work to their detriment. Otherwise, they're in on the joke on this album, and they purposely made the worst song of all time to secretly throw the election for Trump? I'm getting brainworms, ignore me. Great album though. Favorite tracks: Deceptacon, What's Yr Take on Cassavetes, Slideshow at Free University, Dude Yr so Crazy. Album art: I honestly love this one. Bright, popping colors. Headshots on the side like they were printed from a photobooth, and the lo-fi homemade look is certainly fitting. Really fantastic cover. 4/5

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Mon Jul 26 2021
3

Great opening track, cool fuzz guitars, like the vocal delivery, lots of interesting sounds and noises worked in to the music, but... pretty repetitive, most songs plod along but don't really go anywhere. Happy to listen to the odd track here and there, but can't imagine ever going back for a full album. (2.7)

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Thu Sep 09 2021
3

Samples, punk, drum machines, women's lib. A few catchy songs. Reminds me of a poor man's Stereolab at times.

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Thu Oct 14 2021
3

The rousing party music of the trio may evoke Sixties' girl-groups, with punchy guitars and dance beats, but in Hannah's mouth it becomes a channel for hard-line feminist ideology. On the surface one hears folk-rock, Motown soul, but each song is a terrible story that leaves deep scars. (6/10) Favourite Track: Deceptacon

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Thu Nov 25 2021
3

Tar mig näppeligen igenom den första halvan av skivan där Deceptaton är det enda som håller mig kvar underhållningsmässigt. De senare spåren på skivan tonar ner det artsy-tonårsrevolt-skrik-härjandet och stämningen övergår till något mer mellow och suggestivt där Beck-inspirerarde Friendship station och Beastie Boys doftande (utan rappen) Slideshow at Free University sticker ut och får mig att lyssna klart till slutet. Vad tar jag då med mig av de här intensiva 34 min. Jo, att den energidrypande fuck you pekande Deceptacon alltid och då menar jag ALLTID kommer vara ett uppskattat inslag under löppasset eller som den avslutande låten på en lyckad förfest

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Mon Jul 18 2022
2

Really not my thing. Self-indulgent music

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Wed Jan 27 2021
5

Great lo fi punk. Loved it and hearing the folks influenced by it through them

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Thu Feb 11 2021
5

Great aggression and attitude.

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Wed May 05 2021
5

One of the my fav records of the 90s.

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Mon Jan 18 2021
5

This shit is great. I know I keep giving five stars but this album deserves it too! Its a lot of fun. Great for silly dancing.

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Fri Mar 19 2021
5

kathleen hanna perfeita 🥺

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Sat Aug 14 2021
5

adored can’t wait to listen again❤️❤️

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Sat Aug 14 2021
5

the raw weirdness of this electronic rock is super refreshing. “Deceptacon” is such a strong start but I wanted to hear MORE like it. something was missing - I loved it though. I feel like it had some 60s pop & early 80s Brit rock influences wrapped with a modern American sound which was cooollll. the songs were janky but it worked with sometimes simple lyrics paired with rough guitar. very good 😈

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Wed Nov 10 2021
5

That was so under the radar. I listened to it twice in a row. Gotta be 5 stars

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Wed Nov 17 2021
5

Electronic Punk Rock with a message. Great album. I am going to be listening to again and again

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Fri Dec 31 2021
5

4.5/5. Fun, informative, mostly heat

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Sun Feb 20 2022
5

this is definitely a perfect punk album for me, it just hits everything flawlessly the production is amazing with all the electronic drums and weird samples Kathleen’s singing and vocals are fucking perfect in every song the writing is also really cool and can get pretty meta and with so many weird, amazing songs like the hilariously literal What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes or the groovy, spoken-word-sample Slideshow at Free University it’s got perfect songs for if you just wanna fuck shit up, like Deceptacon or The the Empty and it’s got perfect songs for if you just wanna vibe out, like Les and Ray or Eau D’bedroom Dancing I don’t have a single issue with this perfect, perfect, punk, new wave, feminist masterpiece - this is an 11 out of 10 I gotta check out Kathleen Hanna’s other stuff

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Mon Feb 21 2022
5

Ktebt 6 Saf7at Men 3l Bouheli Mte3 Dostoevsky, I'm Getting Better. More Opportunities Every Day, Nchallah Romdhan Moubarek

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Sun Mar 20 2022
5

I had received the song “Deceptacon” on a mixtape from a friend in the early 2000s and really liked it. I should have taken the cue to investigate Le Tigre further! This album kicks ass and sounds great doing it! References to Cassavetes?! The main single listing feminist icons?! Fuck Giuliani!? Count me in! Every song on this appealed immediately to me. The lo-fi instruments are magic in their hands. The lyrics seem very personal. I love it! On the first listen this seems to have become my favorite punk album.

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Sun Mar 20 2022
5

Wheeeeeee! What a fun ride. Surprises around every corner. My new musical crush.

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Sun Mar 20 2022
5

I have heard of this band, but was not actually familiar with this album at all. On first listen, I thought that it was interesting. On the second, I thought, I like these ladies. As I did a quick third overview, I decided I really really like Le Tigre.

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Sun Mar 20 2022
5

What a delight this album was. A retro sound of early 80s new wave/punk, itself evoking 1960s pop, with so much brilliance to say in a clever way. Put a big smile on my face.

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Tue Apr 05 2022
5

started listening and was like 'damn this sounds like good Riot Grrl shit!' I wonder if that's mentioned? Then google it and see it's literally Kathleen Hanna and I'd just forgotten. A lot of really great tracks, and the genre and style push it up to a 5. 100% listworthy and a band/movement worth looking more into even if you're not always a fan of the sound.

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Tue May 24 2022
5

Wow, this was so good! Another band I completely missed

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Tue May 31 2022
5

Love it. I really love this sound. I've been reading a book about Riot Grrrl and Kathleen Hanna so I'm quite invested in the genre at the moment. It's such a raw sound and really feels like people just making music for the sake of music with proper political though and force behind it which I don't think you see as much these days because social media gives a simpler avenue for political opinion.

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Tue May 31 2022
5

Oh yeah, the feminist/political lyrics, unusual beats and sounds, vivacious care-free women in the 90s kind of vibe, and the excellent guitar and drums all mix together to make this an album which is firmly rooted right up Denny street haha! Love it! Another new discovery for me and it's reminding me of Wet Leg which is a band I'm currently super excited about, maybe they're an inspiration? Deceptacon feels like Deja vu to me, I've definitely heard this tune somewhere but I don't think I've watched any of the stuff in the feature list so I have no idea where I've heard it.

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Wed Jun 08 2022
5

Niesamowicie mi się podobało. Fajna zabawa muzyką, agresywne wokale, liryka zaangażowana politycznie stanowi bardzo miłą przerwę od setnego albumu o miłości. Zaczęło się z przytupem i potem trochę to straciło - inaczej bym rozłożył piosenki. Ale w gruncie rzeczy o takie albumy w tym challenge'u mi chodzi - coś do czego wrócę, oryginalne w sumie, nie słuchałem wiele podobnych rzeczy.

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Fri Jun 10 2022
5

Love it just as much as when it was new

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Mon Jun 27 2022
5

The coolest album of all time?

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Fri Jul 08 2022
5

as a huge Bikini Kill fan, of course I've listened to LeTigre

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Wed Jul 20 2022
5

I love this exact brand of music. Surprised I've never heard of this band before, although I am familiar with some of the names in the riot grrrrl movement but not this one. Absolutely will be checking them out. Also reminds me a ton of Neko Case's first band Maow.

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Sat Aug 27 2022
5

This album is so tight and a great relisten

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Sat Sep 10 2022
5

Yes yes yes yes yes yes!!! This is one of my all-time favourite albums ever!!! Kathleen Hanna is THE 90s badass feminist hero I needed. I love the aggressively screeching vocal tones she brings to her performances and I also love the soft vulnerable side she shows. Women are strong powerful beings and we’re unstoppable when we’re given space to speak our minds freely and exist in a respected space. She has such a unique perspective and communicates it so unapologetically. I love every minute of this album: it gives you a killer in your face balls to the walls opener with Deceptacon, then takes you through a winding and frenetic feminist journey celebrating pride, iconic women, New York, and art that culminates with an impassioned moment of gratitude for music and people who make a difference in our lives with Les and Ray. I love the way that song sounds and the genuine appreciation for divergent lifestyles and alternative pathways that it expresses. It fucking rocks so fucking hard! It’s so wildly and daringly different from everything else that was on the market in 1999 and I salute it.

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Mon Oct 03 2022
5

I'm fond of this album already. It's fun and quirky and different.

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Mon Oct 17 2022
5

One of my all-time favorites. Kathleen Hanna is a national treasure.

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Fri Dec 30 2022
5

Best riot grrrl album of all time in my opinion. Every song on this album absolutely rips, and it has a ton of variety and weirdness that keeps it fresh like dog bark samples, pitch shifting, explosions, etc. It has it all.

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Wed Jan 11 2023
5

F me what a blast it was listening to this album. How have I never heard of this band before? So much energy off the hop; loved it from the very first beats of Deceptacon. Simple but wicked beats and a wicked tongue. Very clever lyrics packed into a bunch of catchy 3 minute songs. They combine the melody of Throwing Muses/the Breeders and the anger of L7 (listen to Phanta). No one is spared their glare (eh Cassavetes?) and ahead of their time in calling out Giuliani (on My My Metrocard). Maybe I'm overreacting to how much this album caught me by surprise but it's at least a 4. Going back for a hell of a lot more of these grrrls.

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Fri Jan 13 2023
5

SÅ bra att mitt hundrade album blev en solid femma! Har älskat detta album sedan 'Eau D'bedroom Dancing' dök upp i min shuffle, och den låten får fortfarande mig att känna mig som en melankolisk romantisk gymnasieelev. Det är som att riot grrrl-eran under 90-talet ledde fram till detta fulländade album, som har kvar råheten och kaxigheten, blandat med någon sorts glad post-punk. Självklart var sångaren Kathleen Hanna med både i genrens början med Bikini Kill och i dens kulminerande med Le Tigre. Kul att de i 'Hot Topic' sätter sig in i denna historieskrivning genom att lista inspirationskällor i form av andra band och feministiska ikoner. Här finns den stora, roliga hiten i 'Deceptacon', den vänliga och fina 'Les and Ray', det kaxigt punkiga i 'The the Empty', det avantgardistiska och annorlunda i 'Dude Yr so Crazy' och 'Slideshow at Free University'. Den sistnämnda är för övrigt också en favorit, troligtvis tvåa på albumet. Det instrumentella i den låten slår an en sådan sträng hos mig, den går inte att bli av med, den hypnotiserar mig. Fulländat album, tack. Bästa låt: Eau D'bedroom Dancing. Alltid.

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Sat Jan 14 2023
5

Genuinely good music. Great mix of genres creating a sound that evolved into recent artists like The Prettiots

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Tue Feb 28 2023
5

Love it. Very minimalistic, yet appealing.

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Thu Mar 16 2023
5

This is such a fun album. It manages to be upbeat and silly while also being subversive and politically relevant. For example. My Metro Card seems like a silly song about public transportation, but becomes a song about how Rudy Giuliani's policies were affecting New York. The harmonies are great and help make the album feel really dense with music without feeling suffocating. This is one of those albums that you could drop today and it would still feel fresh and relevant 5/5

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Thu May 18 2023
5

That was fun, very cool song writing drawing on every corner of the pop music world, fantastic guitar sounds dropping in and out, some brilliant rolling drumming and great vocal lines. I knew Deceptacon as I was vaguely alive in 1999, but I'd not clocked the rest of this, which is superb. I thought about the sixties white girl groups and then The Slits, et al, all that kind of landed in Le Tigre's lap and they twisted it again to great effect. Dimery was right on this one Michael Chabon fans, well worth a listen as they wheel you into the first day at the nursing home, it will help you kid yourself it is going to be ok...

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Thu May 18 2023
5

What an amazing quirky band. I nearly shut it off after 5 seconds , but it turns out their work is quite varied, intelligent and the screaching is used selectively, thankfully. Interesting lyrics. Varied style. (Mr Elbows can tell me the name for this style as I am ignorant) Turns out I got interested enough to look up their more recent work. How did these guys stay under the radar so long? I guess that's Indy music - you end up getting noticed on a soundtrack selected by people with great taste... Good stuff - quirky, good stuff. Feels like walking down King St Newtown after a strong espresso....

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Thu May 18 2023
5

What is this high school reunion of music 😭😭😭

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Mon May 29 2023
5

Strong songwriting throughout. Had not listened to this album for a long time, but the opening song is immediately recognizable. Clearly one of the best pop albums from the 90s.

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Fri May 07 2021
4

Never heard of this but really interesting.

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Mon Feb 15 2021
4

I had always heard of Le Tigre but had never heard them. Great album! Very ahead of their time.

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Thu Jul 15 2021
4

Saw them back around 2002 in St Louis. Fun show. I like the punk energy combined with the minimal synth and samples. This music is like a Kind bar where it's sorta healthy but it's really just a candy bar.

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Thu Jan 14 2021
4

Amazing! A new addition to my playlists. Love the punk vibe.

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Tue Feb 09 2021
4

Good for listening to while working. Garage rock vibes, English lyrics.

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Sun Jan 17 2021
4

Only got through the first track "Decepticon" and really loved it.

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Wed Feb 17 2021
4

Electro punk feminist- I quite enjoyed it. I couldn’t decide if it was trying to be edgy or actually was edgy. But still a lot of fun

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Fri Mar 19 2021
4

Banging electro rock! Great stuff. Fave track - "Decepticon" - that track kicks ass!

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Tue Jan 26 2021
4

How in the living shit did I miss this when it was released in 1999? I mean if an album shouts out Sleater-Kinney, Billie Jean King and James Baldwin in one song, discusses Cassavetes in another, and calls Rudy Giuliani a fucking idiot in yet another, then yeah that’s an album that deserves to be on this list.

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Wed Jan 20 2021
4

The music is good, but the lyrics are a little bit too ironic and inscrutable for me to really get into. Highlight of the album for me is "Slideshow at Free University".

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Mon Jan 18 2021
4

Catchy, sometimes a bit noisy and a shrill, enjoyed listening

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Fri Mar 05 2021
4

Surprised by this album. Raw, energetic, fun.

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Tue May 04 2021
4

This album had a lot of ups and downs for me. It starts strong with the first track that is a perfect blend of rawness, punk, catchiness and message. It falls off hard on the next two tracks and I was worried this was a one-hit album. That wasn’t the case but there were only a handful of songs I thought I’d listen to again but those songs are so good I still give this a high rating. I’d have loved this album if I knew of it back in 99.

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Tue Jan 26 2021
4

Inspired in places, boring in others. The satirical stuff mostly lands, but the bits that don't have aged like milk. However, some of the music is great - 'Deceptacon' is nothing short of brilliant, whilst 'What's Yr Take On Cassavetes' is a real hoot.

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Thu Jun 10 2021
4

"Wanna disco? Wanna see me disco? Let me hear you depoliticize my rhyme" (Deceptacon) "All that glitters is not gold I went to your concert and I didn't feel anything (is not gold)" (The the empty) Somos la víscera el puñetazo la hemorragia etc.

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Tue Feb 16 2021
4

Light, easy-listening electro-punk

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Mon Feb 08 2021
4

Best tracks: Deceptacon, The The Empty, My My Metrocard

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