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- Artist(s): Thurston Moore
- Summary: The debut full-length collaboration between The Heat's Charles Hayward and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore was recorded in an afternoon in London.
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- Record Label: Care In The Community
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 5 out of 13
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Mixed: 7 out of 13
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Negative: 1 out of 13
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Dec 7, 2017It’s difficult to determine why one session of abstract noise is more thrilling and less tedious than when your mate’s “avant-garde project” bash their instruments discordantly for 50 minutes. It’s not just down to the names on display. There’s a difference. Moore and Hayward play the good kind.
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Q MagazineNov 30, 2017Hayward drums like h e needs your attention right now, Moore plays like an apocalypse, and it's all loud, snappy and catchy as hell. [Jan 2018, p.109]
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The WireDec 19, 2017Moore responds by occasionally holding on to his riffs, exploring their textures before returning to chop and grind mode. Such moments help break up the pair’s machine-like momentum, which in places makes tracks blur together; some actually sound like reprises of each other, somewhere between natural motifs and a well of ideas running dry. But the thrill of Moore and Hayward’s best right hooks and body blows justify the amount of punches thrown. [Dec 2017, p.55]
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Dec 6, 2017The results are often enjoyable and always interesting, with the 11-minute journey of “A3”, in particular, navigating an angular, monochromatic turmoil akin to an Arctic ice field.
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Dec 14, 2017It’s palatable, well-performed, but rarely involving. It’s a shame that the most exciting thing about a collaboration between Charles Hayward and Thurston Moore is that it’s a collaboration between Charles Hayward and Thurston Moore.
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Dec 7, 2017This has the feel of a document rather than a record.
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Dec 22, 2017Even though their trademark sounds stick out like fingerprints in an ongoing crime scene, there is little to salvage from their efforts other than a jam session that should have remained private.