 | Women Public Strain
4.0
excellent
| Ranking: #113 for 2010 | |
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| 4.5 superb | Enotron | November 30th 10 |
Public Strain succeeds in the sense that it manages to capture a profound feeling through all it's subtlety and you never quite figure it out what it is. In the culmination of fuzz and Flegel's reverberated vocals, are memories too blurry to recall, but that are still close to home.
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| 2.5 average | Rudy K. EMERITUS | December 26th 10 |
The only strain here is in making it through the whole record.
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| 2.0 poor | PuddlesPuddles | January 4th 11 |
This is making me hate music, so I stopped
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| 5.0 classic | FoozerFan | October 3rd 20 |
there's a whole subgenre of post punk that's just bands trying to sound like this lol
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| 3.5 great | ZiggyPop | October 8th 10 |
With mutual traits of Sonic Youth and The Velvet Underground swimming in a haze of reverb, Calgary's Women deliver a kind of delicate aggression with Public Strain.rThe sparingly delivered vocals never take front-stage, with songs generally driven by guitar interplay. Rhythm section takes an atmospheric backseat, although it's a booming kick drum that really defines "China Steps". No one is showing off here, and carefully balanced tension and release form a cohesive body of work.rWith the M.I.A.'s and Kevin Drew's of the genre linking the mainstream so openly to indie music, claiming authenticity among the imitators is a hard thing to do. I mean, being 'indie' has less and less to do with its root word. So how does Public Strain avoid being lumped into heaps of other noise-pop indie records? Give it a spin, they aren't following trends. This beautifully bleak shoegaze album treats us to a well awaited shot of originality.
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| 5.0 classic | 2ool | November 11th 19 |
this is such a fucking 5. the entire second half is spiderland and laughing stock level shit. unbelievable record.
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| 5.0 classic | jercohen | August 21st 15 |
Modern classic. This is an album that will be adored by the music lovers of the 2040s..
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| 3.5 great | brutebeard | September 21st 10 |
Very nice indie music. The production quality is delightful. The song-writing is a bit outlandish which makes for a refreshing spin.
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| 2.0 poor | Santa Koopa | July 5th 23 |
some cool twangs but nothing captivating
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| 3.5 great | Bedex | January 4th 23 |
This honestly felt way overhyped. I can't even say I had bad listening conditions or anything. Overall I find the vocals are so the bare minimum that they mostly take away from the atmosphere without adding much at all. 1 is drony and kinda cool vox aside, then I frankly found nothing memorable up to the nice seaside-ness of 4. 5's quite functional drone, and then 6 is boring to me again. The album so far feels a bit like a bland pop rock record from the 60s perked up with some noisier, more modern production idk. It's not until 7 that the cool math-rock tendencies foreshadowed on LP1 poke their nose vaguely. 8 brings the interest further up with its nice noisiness and hypnotic bass though it's still not really a jam. 9 brings the mathiness again in the stereo interplay between the guitars, but by the midtrack it goes back to zzz. 10 has cute guitars but again and again the vox kinda break it for me. 11 is a good track with fun grit, but the album feels like it ends into nowhere. At least LP1 was a debut and felt like I tried a bit further? 3.3
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| 5.0 classic | PrincyAli | December 27th 21 |
A classic in the post-punk and noise scene. 4.8/5 Favs: Heat Distraction, Narrow With The Hall, Penal Colony, Bells, China Steps, Untogether, Drag Open, Locust Valley, Venice Lockjaw, Eyesore
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| 3.5 great | Erwann S. EMERITUS | August 2nd 19 |
Acutely blurry and fuzzy, its atmosphere, dissonance and aesthetic make me think of Unwound and MBV. I feel this is the kind of record that may "click" at one point, and then you're hooked. Edit: ok it's starting to click. Edit2: nothing new clicks. It's a record that def has got many qualities, but these qualities do not touch me that much, despite "Eyesore" being a masterpiece, or many other tracks possessing great passages.
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| 0.0 | | March 1st 11 |
teh biebz is outtt naow i gotz ta GIT inta Them there Womenzz
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| 2.5 average | kroglor | October 6th 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lani | May 31st 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Myri | March 3rd 25 |
| 4.0 excellent | Matty CONTRIBUTOR | December 26th 24 |
| 4.5 superb | boato | November 27th 24 |
| 4.9 classic | Ryan P STAFF | May 13th 24 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jake E. | September 6th 23 |
| 5.0 classic | FunJan | February 22nd 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | gdask | September 26th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | Boreque | September 2nd 22 |
| 5.0 classic | LRS94 | August 1st 22 |
| 2.5 average | Roidv | January 11th 22 |
| 4.5 superb | nilsson | September 20th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Flomink | April 8th 21 |
| 2.5 average | Pangea | March 5th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | TMTrates | February 27th 21 |
| 4.5 superb | Lassie | December 10th 20 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Sowing STAFF | May 10th 20 |
| 3.0 good | Mathias EMERITUS | April 29th 20 |
| 4.0 excellent | sevhar | April 22nd 20 |
| 2.0 poor | 00mee | April 21st 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Lewis EMERITUS | April 19th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Jekub | April 14th 20 |
| 2.5 average | Emo | April 14th 20 |
| 4.5 superb | voff3 | March 25th 20 |
| 3.5 great | aiioli | December 18th 19 |
| 2.9 good | A.R.O. EMERITUS | October 7th 19 |
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| 4.5 superb | Josh | July 8th 19 |
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| 4.0 excellent | gilly | February 21st 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | SweetAsh | February 13th 19 |
| 3.0 good | Lucman | January 9th 19 |
| 5.0 classic | luci | December 27th 18 |
| 3.5 great | DANcore | December 23rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | doofy | November 24th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | Sithese | September 2nd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ellagos | July 31st 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | EJinHD | June 15th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ProfC | June 12th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Eons | June 11th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | skronk | March 28th 18 |
| 5.0 classic | Rowan5215 EMERITUS | February 12th 18 |
| 3.0 good | Corney | December 1st 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Damus | November 6th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Mandais | October 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Denis | August 20th 17 |
| 4.5 superb | bentl | July 31st 17 |
| 5.0 classic | Henry | May 24th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rhyme | February 9th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | Wolfe | November 28th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | dbizzles | November 19th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | ciregno | September 22nd 16 |
| 3.5 great | ywhiat | June 18th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Jordan M. EMERITUS | April 1st 16 |
| 5.0 classic | Yep321 | March 20th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | lo-figuy | December 18th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Atrophy | December 13th 15 |
| 3.5 great | tancrni | November 15th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Rodin | November 11th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | cb123 | October 23rd 15 |
| 3.0 good | jmh886 | October 5th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | XiuXiu | September 25th 15 |
| 4.5 superb | bmelt | July 12th 15 |
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| 3.5 great | Matski | March 19th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | adr | February 24th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | tom79 | January 23rd 15 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Mr Snrub | November 30th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | mrnoah | November 23rd 14 |
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| 4.0 excellent | Walt | November 9th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Xar | October 18th 14 |
| 4.5 superb | tyler | August 27th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Lotus | June 2nd 14 |
| 3.5 great | ethos | April 28th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | msm008 | March 27th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | Queebs | November 30th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Greem | November 17th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Scomadi | September 27th 13 |
| 5.0 classic | robin | September 22nd 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | llll | September 3rd 13 |
| 4.5 superb | ADM20 | July 29th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | yep123 | June 12th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Meruem | April 15th 13 |
| 2.0 poor | Tyrael | February 26th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Eko | February 20th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | tnd | February 15th 13 |
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| 4.5 superb | DinoX | February 1st 12 |
| 3.5 great | porch | January 6th 12 |
| 3.5 great | JJwins | November 5th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | outline | August 30th 11 |
| 3.0 good | nnnope | August 18th 11 |
| 3.5 great | gervin | August 14th 11 |
| 2.5 average | BigHans | August 11th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Skyler | July 23rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | MTL10 | July 17th 11 |
| 4.5 superb | cuki92 | June 22nd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | kount | May 5th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | kanker | January 23rd 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Kodan | January 11th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Lakes. | January 10th 11 |
| 2.0 poor | doqtor | January 8th 11 |
| 2.5 average | lobby | January 7th 11 |
| 3.5 great | fulgrim | December 30th 10 |
| 3.5 great | cubbzor | December 27th 10 |
| 3.5 great | Mevz | December 21st 10 |
| 3.0 good | IsItLuck? EMERITUS | December 21st 10 |
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| 3.5 great | Johan | October 18th 10 |
| 4.5 superb | conradtao EMERITUS | October 13th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Smevin | September 4th 10 |
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