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The Bronx - The Bronx III
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The Bronx Nov 13, 2008 0 Comments The Bronx news, reviews, video and tour dates Add The Bronx to MyNME We live in unsettling, alien times. Thanks to global warming, unseasonable blizzards lash the capital; celebrity prank phonecalls bump the bombing of Syria off the front pages and Axl Rose finally stopped contemplating his own navel long enough to record an entire, actual album of actual songs and stuff. The need for simple escapism has arguably never been greater, so we welcome back LA’s The Bronx with open arms. Their third self-titled album in five years crunches into a musical landscape where giving a tune to a Pretorian cabbie can do as much to further your career as hiring a crack PR team and, grounded as it is in textbook garage-punk riffery, strives to capture the blood’n’whisky carnage of their 2003 debut....full text |
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| Spin |
| This is the third time these brash Los Angeles bombers have released an album titled The Bronx, but don't think they're scraping the bottom of their metallic punk recycling bin: Here they dial down the Black Flag–derived chaos of The Bronx (I) and (II), unleashing sharper melodies and boogie rhythms that Axl Rose might've admired before getting cornrows. That said, singer Matt Caughthran's juvie attitude still defines tunes like "Past Lives," on which he admits, "Maybe in the next life I'll be a hero, not a criminal."...full text |
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| Guardian |
| That the Bronx's third album is also their third self-titled is a testament to their self-confidence and place in the world. And if that place happens to be drunk and dribbling in the gutter then all the better. Certainly the LA punk mob have a free-spirited approach to life – as rebellious and American as the Stooges or Jack Kerouac – and every bit as compelling....full text |
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