Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

www.pitchforkmedia.com, 2004-03, ocena: 7 na 8
"...The album repeats one track from the EP, "Staring at the Sun"-- the catchiest but least introspective track on that album-- and that sets the path for the band's new style, which is alternately driving and repetitious. The guitar parts are almost as static as the beats, and no track develops with the subtlety of, say, Young Liars' "Blind". The loops and settings run out of ideas by the end of the record, "Don't Love You" chugs ahead with no progress, making the next song, "Bomb Yourself", sound more plodding than it actually is. Even "Wear You Out" seems limited when the swarthy opening picks up horns, and then plateaus right away. It isn't a climax so much as proof of how cold those textures can become..." [Chris Dahlen]