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BAD BRAINS - Build A Nation
| PunkNews | | The Bad Brains have not released a full album's worth of new material since the poorly recieved major label effort God of Love in 1995. I, personally, have found every Bad Brains release (including God of Love and the HR-less Rise) to have at least a couple really good songs on them. The band has always been, regardless of HR's antics, a tight and extremely potent musical force. Now they're back with the original lineup and have unleashed upon the world Build a Nation. In many ways this album is a return to form for the Bad Brains...although, that may depend on what you consider a 'return to form' to be....full text |
| | Spin | | After a decade of seminal albums, mythic shows, and erratic behavior (the '80s) and a decade of dud albums, spotty shows, and erratic behavior (the '90s), Bad Brains were unlikely reunion candidates. Yet Build a Nation roars and throbs with vintage fire. H.R.'s vocals, dub-echoed and buried, sound like they're transmitted from Olympus. The band's reggae has improved mightily, though it remains (Jah forgive me) too much like the narrative bits in porn movies; and the punk burners ("Pure Love," "Let There Be Angels [Just Like You]") are their most furious since I Against I. Still the only band ever to make thrash swing like Basie. ...full text |
| | PitchFork | | As I'm sure is true of 90% of Pitchfork's readership, I have no epochal stories where my mind gets blown apart at an 80s Bad Brains show-- although I did have a couple of permanent teeth knocked out when I finally heard the band's 1982's self-titled "yellow tape," with songs like "Sailing On" and "Banned in D.C." positively shredding all advance hype. Unlike the uglier, post-grindcore 90s hardcore I was devouring at the time, there was a clean, hooky quality to Bad Brains' tumult, and though I didn't know it then, the jazz fusion they'd burned through as apprentices in the Chocolate City scene allowed their music to turn at subconsciously funky angles that would have sent most of their peers scrambling for Dramamine....full text |
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