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Cruise To Nowhere
1985 Rave On Records (TGP-1002)
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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 - "Cruise To Nowhere"
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: Cruise To Nowhere (Rave On '85)
Less bracing that the nonstop Let's Go!, with only a few tunes - the miniature ("Fistfight at the Beach") even more than the metaphor ("Cruise to Nowhere") or the final statement ("Sound of Breaking Down") - that bite hard enough to break the skin. But on "Pub Rockin'" they cop to their roots' roots, and you have to be amazed at how good punk was for these guys. They're devoid of Ameriphilia - of Dr. Feelgood's raunchy role-playing or Ducks Deluxe's mud-bottom romaticism. And if they don't write with the panache of Nick Lowe, they sure get to the point faster than Sean Tyla. [B+]Copyright 1990 by Robert Christgau
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