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The Reducers
1984 Rave On Records (TGP-1000)
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Also, The Trouser Press Record Guide contains a entry that covers the first 3 Reducers albums.Robert Christgau Reviews The Reducers - "The Reducers"
The following review was published in Christgau's Record Guide: The 80's by Robert Christgau (Pantheon Books ISBN 0-679-73015-X).
The Reducers: The Reducers (Rave On '84)
A glorified demo, so the sound could be crisper, but Tom Trombley compensates by sending out a flat, tough beat as pure if not as magical as Charlie Watts himself. And the material is there: "Out of Step" and (in a less theoretical vein) "Black Plastic Shoes" might qualify as theme songs for a band given to voicing the discontents of fairly ordinary nonmetropolitan under-twenty-fives who don't want to buy into the system if they can help it. [B+]Copyright 1990 by Robert Christgau
This review was extracted from an article that originally appeared in The Village Voice.
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