dustedmagazine.com - 10/10/2009
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by Emerson Dameron A mean streak under a soup-thick haze of masochism. A guitarist who stripped rock to its most confrontational aspects, dispensing with its pop element entirely, until it was no party and all crash. An animal on the mic, mixed well beneath intelligibility, who happened to have a cartoonist's eye... Read More
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Pretty Goes with Pretty —
... Last thing first: I'm the one guy this week who listened to the Jesus Lizard but didn't listen to one of the reissues (though I am itching to get my hands on a couple of them). Instead I pulled out Shot, their major label debut which I haven't heard since around when it first came out. Portions are not as bad as I remember; the last third is actually pretty good. I just wish they'd cut about four or five tracks from the first two thirds altogether. The album as a whole is a little hard to endure. ...
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