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Rolling Stone (7/11-25/96, p.85) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...with LOAD, the foursome dams the bombast and chugs half-speed ahead, settling into a wholly magnetizing groove that bridges old-school biker rock and the doomier side of post-grunge '90s rock..."Entertainment Weekly (6/7/96, pp.56-57) - "...captures the band's earnest pursuit of its Sisyphean mission: to create hard rock that reaches grown-ups and basement-dwelling teens..." - Rating: BQ (7/96, p.119) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...These boys set up their tents in the darkest place of all, in the naked horror of their own heads....Metallica make existential metal and they've never needed the props....Metallica are still awesome....What is new is streamlined attack, the focus and, yes, the tunes..."Melody Maker (6/8/96, p.49) - "...A Metallica album is traditionally an exhausting event. It should rock you to exhaustion, leave you brutalised and drained. This one is no exception. It is, however, the first Metallica album to make me wonder at any point, 'What the f*** was that?' It's as if the jackboot grinding the human face were to take occasional breaks for a pedicure..."Musician (8/96, p.85) - "...The smoother, broader sound that distinguished...1991's METALLICA is even more apparent here, as is the tendency to write accessible tunes....the exploration of new sounds does nothing but good for the guitar duo of [James] Hetfield and Kirk Hammett..."New York Times (Publisher) (6/2/96, Sec.2, p.28) - "...On LOAD, Metallica has altered its music, learning new skills. Hetfield has committed himself to melodies, carrying tunes where he used to bark, and he no longer sounds sheepish when he sings quietly..."NME (Magazine) (6/1/96, p.44) - 7 (out of 10) - "...like triumphant warriors returning into a world changed beyond all recognition...Metallica emphatically prove they are still unsurpassed in their self-created genre of stadium nihilism..."19.91023
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Uncut (p.78) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Shrill electronics make a sporadic, occasionally welcome reappearance, but it's the quiet, lyrical moments that linger."The Wire (p.70) - "Kites shifts from bouts of electronic crash and what sounds like a wrestling match with a giant robot, to actual songs with lyrics to die for."CMJ (p.6) - "His homemade, modified and hotwired instruments always sound at the bleeding edge of collapse, making the gorgeously plucked 'Peace Trials' as vulnerable as the ear-destroying whirr of 'True.'"7.609799
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The Wire (p.61) - "Strong evidence for electronic music being the real inheritor of punk, WAITING FOR ARMADILLO bleeds from the speakers, as caustic and vicious as mustard gus."7.609799
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The Wire (p.50) - "[T]his is rock music which remains exhilarating, even when removed from the live spectacle....HYPERMAGIC MOUNTAIN captures the crudely exquisite brilliance of Lightning Bolt."The Wire (p.41) - Included in The Wire's "2005 Rewind: 50 Records Of The Year."Mojo (Publisher) (p.105) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Still rocking their own singularly battle-worn and telepathically tight set-up of bass and drums, effects and volume, Brian Gibson and Chippendale continue to plough a unique path of destruction through rock's deepest strata."Mojo (Publisher) (p.60) - Ranked #1 in Mojo's "Top Ten Underground Albums Of 2005."7.609799
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Uncut (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Attaining a dazed, shamanic ambience somewhere between the communal congregation of Amon Duul and HEATHEN EARTH-era Throbbing Gristle..."Magnet (pp.92-96) - "This Brooklyn quintet tweaks an endless pool of undulating textures using sampler boxes, guitars, synths, echo and thumb piano....THRONE maintains the smoothest chill even when the percussion picks up..."The Wire (p.57) - "Live, Excepter are less a group than an environment, filling the air with electronic emanations and covering the floor with crawling vocalists."Mojo (Publisher) (p.103) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Excepter seduce with twilight tones and goose-bump shudders."7.609799
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Spin (12/98, pp.170-172) - 8 (out of 10) - "...it's a warm, slow, understated downer of a record, all about death and depression, and therefore totally in line with Beck's fascination and comfort with folk blues..."Entertainment Weekly (10/30/98, pp.111-112) - "...MUTATIONS is a colleciton of tumblin'-tumbleweeds, mellow-Acapulco-gold melodies on which Beck's drowsy voice and strummed guitar are framed by the lazy whine of a pedal steel, the wheeze of a harmonica, the occasional trumpet, and the bleeps and burps of old-school synthesizers..." - Rating: BQ (12/99, p.115) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...a loose, thrown-together selection of oddities and missahpes which he dreamed up and scribbled down while out on the road. He calls the album 'parenthetical.' Most artists would kill to be able to casually marginalise material as marvellous as this..."Muzik (12/98, p.72) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...[Beck] settles down to some good ol' bluegrass strummin'. And it might just be his best album yet....Retro or not, it sound sperfect at 4 in the morning..."CMJ (1/11/99, p.4) - "...the intimate, colorful, occaisionally creepy themes of this stop-gap effort and the sheer diversity of its songs make it a beautifully complex album, as instantly rewarding as any in his catalog..."Vibe (1/99, p.182) - "...the songs are still quite fully fleshed out and sweet....MUTATIONS is an exploration of more classic 60's Brit-pop structures and arrangements..."Dirty Linen (4-5/99, p.74) - "...Beck's complicated work reminds listeners of their own complications and contradictions..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.63) - Ranked #32 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[A]n eerie update of roots from back porch to Brazilian, pushed through a dark, Beatlesy filter..."6.726175
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The Wire (p.65) - "THROUGH THE PANAMA ups the ante, and it's their best album yet....As primal and wrecked as The Stooges, Destroy All Monsters or Wolf Eyes."The Wire (p.35) - Included in The Wire's "50 Records of the Year 2007".6.726175
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The Wire (p.69) - "[T]he clarity of the recording reveals the subtleties in their sound for the first time. A career best."6.726175
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The Wire (p.68) - "[An] art and noise project that has cells of CHOCOLATE SYNTHESIZER-era Boredoms pulsing through its furred arteries."5.38094
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