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| n/a by www.drownedinsound.com |
Nude With Boots is an enjoyably acerbic listen, with a decent spread of compositional variety, that empties its acid bath just occasionally enough to give its audience time to towel off the waves of tumultuous noise. |
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| n/a by www.nowtoronto.com |
Its slightly less menacing, yet without a discernible drop in power, which should go down well in the burbs without alienating their hipster metal following. |
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| n/a by www.spin.com |
Bassist Jared Warren and second drummer Coady Willis (a.k.a. Big Business) return as the perfect-fit rhythm section for lifers Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover, who are still communicating in their own avant-boogie metal language like twins separated at birth. |
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| n/a by www.avclub.com |
Nude sounds, well, a bit naked. Lean and not mean enough, songs like The Kicking Machine and The Stupid Creep are as conventional as anything the band has ever recorded. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
This band is still nearly as big, as slow, as lumberingly loud as they were in the days Kurt Cobain was trying out for a spot on bass. |
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| n/a by www.prefixmag.com |
Some are sure to hate it, but unlike any Melvins album since Houdini, Nude With Boots certainly demands your attention. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
Nude With Boots, their second effort with Big Business' Jared Warren and Coady Willis, continues to muscle up that foursome, the BBs proving the long-lost rhythm section to drummer Dale Crover and guitarist Buzz Osborne. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Its not a bad piece of work overall, but when we want to hear classic Melvins, pleasant music isnt exactly what were looking for. |
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| n/a by thephoenix.com |
The results are surprisingly tame, if not un-rocking. |
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| n/a by Billboard |
Flaunting the band's love for classic AOR riffs more here than on any other previous record, Nude chugs along on the strength of licks lifted from Led Zeppelin (The Kicking Machine) and Killer-era Alice Cooper (The Stupid Creep), bringing a sense of boogie to Buzz's now-perfectly honed tablature of bludgeoning guitar work. |
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