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| | The Need: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com |
 | | Yet while many of the album's 9 sci-fi tracks were previously available on vinyl-only releases by labels such as Kill Rock Stars and Outpunk, having them all on one CD is definitely an easier way to digest the band's quirky and catchy art-punk. |
 | | The Need [+]'s self-titled debut may not be billed as such, but it might as well be considered a CD compilation of the Olympia, Washington-based duo's early singles. |
 | | And the Need [+] are nothing if not quirky: full of chaotic time changes, carnival-styled dementia, almost surreal sexuality ("Rim Me Isabella"), their songs teem with operatic vocals, guitars, drums, organs, crying babies and alarm clocks. |
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