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Let's Go
1984 Rave On Records (TGP-1001)
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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 - "Let's Go!"
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: Let's Go (Rave On '84)
Suspiciously generic though they may seem, nobody can name the genre - the attack of speed boys like the Vibrators yoked to a Stoneish but very American "honky imitation of the blues". You know, rock and roll like you dream about it. Their cross-class sniping isn't as sharp as their what-the-fuck-are-we-doing-in-New-London? because no matter how you strip them down and speed them up, blues and country sources still put a premium on personal expressiveness. Thus the Reducers' satire is straightforward rather than deadpan, their anger their own. For cartoony affectlessness they substitute contained, rapid-fire soul; for chordal roar, licks and even quick, clipped, vaguely Claptonesque solos; for ur-pop hooks, a honky imitation of the blues. [A-]Copyright 1990 by Robert Christgau
This review was extracted from an article that originally appeared in The Village Voice.
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