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| | Martin Rev: To Live: Pitchfork Record Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Since Rev is the funny old uncle of electroclash, who probably wears his shades in the shower and sleeps in leather bedsheets, To Live obviously has no difficulty sounding cool: his production is a physical assault, the music marching through what sounds like Boeing's biggest wind tunnel. |
 | | In fact, playing it on cheap, tinny speakers seems to enhance it: all the colors bleed out to leave a violent, blaring grey of guitars and drum machines that loop in hammers through each song, too rusty to be industrial and too open-air to pass for tidy dance music. |
 | | Unfortunately, even as a solo statement it offers few clues to Rev's vision beyond his bluntest, most consistent aesthetic preferences: the range of ideas is as limited as the sound palette, and Rev's still hiding behind the sunglasses. |
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