Rock & Roll Submarine
Rock & Roll Submarine is an album by alternative rock band Urge Overkill, released in 2011.[5] It was their first album in sixteen years.[6]
Rock & Roll Submarine | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | May 10, 2011 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock | |||
Length | 39:17 | |||
Label | UO Records[1] | |||
Producer | Urge Overkill | |||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
The New Zealand Herald | [3] |
Pitchfork | 5.8/10[4] |
Critical reception
Spin wrote: "Calcifying their trademark lounge leer into a dead-eyed glare, singer-guitarists Nash Kato and Ed 'King' Roeser ply curdled Bad Company riffs and a seedy, confessional air, serving up shit cocktails to anyone foolish enough to swallow ’90s nostalgia."[7] The A.V. Club wrote that the band "keeps the Nuge-style riffage on Rock & Roll Submarine rooted in the realities of basement-show grime, tamping down the old stadium-ruling ambitions with wanton sloppiness and purposefully duller hooks."[8] The Washington Post wrote that if the album "displays less attitude than Urge’s ’90s work, that’s probably because [Eddie] Roeser has gradually supplanted the flashier [Nash] Kato as the principal songwriter."[9] The New Yorker thought that the Urge Overkill of Rock & Roll Submarine "offers a more raw sound, but with tightly arranged and raspingly sung anthems."[10]
Track listing
- "Mason/Dixon"—2:58
- "Rock & Roll Submarine"—4:01
- "Effigy"—3:44
- "Poison Flower"—2:32
- "Little Vice"—3:14
- "Thought Balloon"—4:13
- "Quiet Person"—3:23
- "She's My Ride"—3:33
- "End of Story"—3:24
- "The Valiant"—3:45
- "Niteliner"—2:21
- "Touched to a Cut"—2:09
References
- "Urge Overkill: Rock & Roll Submarine". PopMatters. June 12, 2011.
- "Rock & Roll Submarine - Urge Overkill". AllMusic.
- "Album Review: Urge Overkill, Rock & Roll Submarine". NZ Herald.
- "Urge Overkill: Rock & Roll Submarine". Pitchfork.
- "Urge Overkill | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- "Get Submerged with Urge Overkill's Rock & Roll Submarine". SF Weekly. May 17, 2011.
- "Urge Overkill, 'Rock & Roll Submarine' (UO)". Spin. May 10, 2011.
- "Urge Overkill: Rock&Roll Submarine". Music.
- Jenkins, -Mark (July 7, 2011). "Album review: Urge Overkill's 'Rock & Roll" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- "Urge Overkill". The New Yorker.