24-7 Rock Star Shit
Not many British alt-rock contemporaries boasted the fanbase enjoyed by the Jarman brothers across their first six studio albums and 13 years. Number seven feels like a gift to that heartland support: a record that brilliantly distills the band’s scrappy energy and marks a reunion with Nirvana engineer Steve Albini. Nirvana themselves are summoned on standout “Rainbow Ridge,” while the rawness bleeding from tracks like “Year of Hate” and “Deandrophobia” points towards a band still loaded with intent.
Time machines may not exist, but The Cribs’ 24-7 Rock Star Shit sure feels like a trip back to the bone-crushing rock of the 1990s.
Loud, angry, booming and raw, sounding more like first takes than anything even remotely considered "studio polished."
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