Viet Cong

2015, Jan 20

Apple Spotify Bandcamp Post-Punk 99 Highly Rated Jagjaguwar Pitchfork 8.5/10 The Needle Drop 7/10 The Line of Best Fit 8/10 NME 4/5 Rolling Stone 3/5 DIY 4/5 All Music 4/5 The Skinny 4/5 Exclaim! 9/10 Clash 7/10 Mojo 3/5 Loud and Quiet 9/10 Pop Matters 8/10 Northern Transmissions 7.3/10 The Guardian 4/5 Spectrum Culture 80% music OMH 3.5/5 Uncut 7/10

Pitchfork 8.5/10 Viet Cong's impressive full-length debut consists of dark, simmering post-punk. Their mission is not altogether different from that of Women, the short-lived and sorely missed indie deconstructionists in which half of Viet Cong previously served.

The Line of Best Fit 8/10 One of the most hotly anticipated of the year so far is a post-punk classic from Calgary's finest, an album which is richly thick with dread, terror and - inevitably - death.

Rolling Stone 3/5 Check out our album review of Artist's Viet Cong on Rolling Stone.com.

DIY 4/5 Viet Cong are not settling for anything other than pushing the boundaries.

The Skinny 4/5 The kind of piss and vinegar that brought a band like Women together was unlikely to just evaporate, despite guitarist Christopher Reimer's untimely death in 2012.

Clash 7/10 Album review: Viet Cong - Viet Cong. A debut as dark as Aleister Crowley’s boot heels…

The Guardian 4/5 Calgary’s Viet Cong connect the dots between experimental noise and indie rock with some skill, writes <strong>Lanre Bakare</strong>