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VIETNAM - Vietnam
| RollingStone | | Band overcomes Apocalypse Now connotations with lovely guitar haze There are stupider band names than VietNam -- you remember Test Icicles, don't you? Or Hinder? But basically, bands with names this ass do not come along every day....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | Naming one’s band VietNam is bound to invite some controversy, some confusion, and some pleas for a formidable explanation. Little did Michael Gerner and Joshua Grubb know when they chose the moniker that it would mirror their career trajectory: a quagmire of a deal with Vice Records, a nomadic existence that took them from Austin to Williamsburg and into the heart of darkness that is Los Angeles, and now a battle for reputable aesthetics they are too green to fight....full text |
| | AV Club | | Like Royal Trux before it, the Brooklyn-via-Texas quartet VietNam often sounds like its members dropped from the womb with The Rolling Stones' 1971-1973 catalog imprinted on their cerebral cortices. Hazy, anachronistic, and deceptively loose, the band's eponymous debut album at least has the atmospheric appeal of albums such as Sticky Fingers and Goats Head Soup; unfortunately, there's more to cling to in the atmosphere than in the actual songwriting it supports....full text |
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