Against Me! - New Wave reviews
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| Lostatsea |
 "Protest songs in response to military aggression/ Protest songs trying to stop the soldier's gun," Tom Gabel militantly, aggressively protests on New Wave, the breakthrough album for Gabel and his bandmates in Against Me!. That line is pulled from from "White People for Peace," Against Me!'s new signature tune, a bellowing march that sums up the band's aesthetic better than even self-aware punk singers should know. What's nice is that unlike most current sloggers on the Warped Tour/Bamboozle circuit, they even have an aesthetic at all. Three albums ago, the Floridians might as well have been billed as For Against or Rise Against. ...full text |
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| Spin |
| Near the end of 2005's Searching for a Former Clarity, Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel succinctly summed up his band's blunt message: "Don't lose touch," he commanded in a hoarse all-ages holler -- with reality, with integrity, with one another. Gabel is a folk-punk rabble-rouser in the frayed-and-furious tradition of Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, and Ted Leo; and for the past decade, he's been writing songs about the struggle to stay active and earthbound in a culture hell-bent on medicated disengagement. Even more than your quintessential street rapper, Gabel is obsessed with keeping it real....full text |
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| Allmusic.com |
| There is a legion of Against Me! fans who want only for the band's music to sound exactly as it did on Reinventing Axl Rose — scrappy punk/folk and nothing else. But with as talented a songwriter as Tom Gabel leading the way, it's ridiculous to think that the band would be satisfied complying. Growth is necessary; change is inevitable. In the case of New Wave, different doesn't automatically mean bad. As their first album on major label Sire, it's a straight-up rock record....full text |
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