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  • Summary: The first new release in more than 35 years for the Scottish punk band was produced by Youth.
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  1. Uncut
    Feb 2, 2018
    70
    The title track veer uncomfortably close to cookie-cutter sloganeering, but there's more focused spikiness to the manic pop charge of "One last Chance," while "Up On the Moors" ticks all the pogo-anthems boxes of the band's glory days. [Feb 2018, p32]
  2. Feb 2, 2018
    60
    As comeback records go, then, Burning Cities isn’t a bad album, but neither is it a particularly great one.
  3. Mojo
    Feb 2, 2018
    60
    With some lyrics on the utilitarian side of blunt, it lack the younger Jobson's poetic delusions, but and elegiac title track, shimmering Refugee and Kings Of The New World Order's halcyon riffola are all powerful statements worthy of the Skids legend. [Feb 2018, p.96]
  4. 50
    Produced by Youth, it’s a routeone volley of loud guitar riffs and peripatetic punk energy, railing at the establishment. It’s our world, they roar, and it’s on fire, so let’s not go gently.
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