Nothing Hurts

2010, May 11

Apple Spotify Slacker Rock Garage Punk 90 Sub Pop Records Pitchfork 8.5/10 A.V. Club C NME 4/5 Paste 7.0/10 All Music 4/5 The Skinny 4/5 Loud and Quiet 9/10 Slant 4/5 Pop Matters 8/10 The Guardian 4/5 Spectrum Culture 70% music OMH 4/5 Beats Per Minute 65%

Pitchfork 8.5/10 Male Bonding's full-length debut cleans up the sound of their ultra lo-fi early singles but the music is still fast, noisy, and full of hooks.

A.V. Club C It’s hard not to gravitate toward "Worse To Come," the final track of Male Bonding's debut, Nothing Hurts. In the song, the band’s former tourmates and kindred spirits, Vivian Girls, harmonize angelically behind frontman John Arthur Webb. It’s a slab of shimmering, scuffed, acoustic punk that calls to mind the…

Slant 4/5 Male Bonding is definitely not the first band to crank out waterlogged surf-garage jams in minute-and-a-half morsels.

The Guardian 4/5 Guitars that sound like they are playing themselves? Count <strong>Michael Hann</strong> in for some Male Bonding