Free Electricity

The Cops | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Control Group / Tcg
• ASIN: B000W7Y2IW
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #371,981 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Killer, guitar-driven neo-post-punk, June 18, 2008

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Alexander F. Remington (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Free Electricity (Audio CD)

In the past few years, we've seen a lot of music inspired by, derived from, or simply baldly aping British 1980's post-punk. These bands can be identified simply by the presence of the adjective "angular," which is rock-crit shorthand for the jagged guitar attack they all seem to share, clipped electric bursts over a precise rhythm section. Some do it gleefully -- I particularly liked Franz Ferdinand's first album, and The Young Knives' most recent album (Superabundance) -- and some do it stultifyingly, trapped in a copy of a thirty-year old groove with no room to move.

The Cops do it well. They're somewhere in between classic punk and post-punk -- they're probably a bit more rhythmic than orthodox punk, and a hell of a lot more violent than most post-punk. They sound older than their years. They're from the Pacific Northwest, a longtime bastion of rock and roll, and their latest album rocks, by turns sinister, sneering, knowing, and angry. It's a great guitar record, sharp as a tack, with no sugary concessions, no synths in sight, and no letup. Fun as hell.