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- Summary: Neil Michael Hagerty's latest band releases its sixth album, which is only 33 minutes long.
- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Positive: 8 out of 11
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Mixed: 3 out of 11
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Negative: 0 out of 11
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A short and not a little peculiar gem of an album then and one that proves that on his day Hegarty is full of great ideas.
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UncutThis is a much more laid-back collection of strangely alien desert music written in Hagerty's adopted home state of New Mexico and recorded in Texas. [Oct 2008, p.92]
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The WireEarth Junk won't top any end of the year polls, but as another clue in decoding exactly where Hagerty is heading, a scrap with which to re-assemble a much bigger picture, it's essential. [Sep 2008, p. 51]
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Hagerty’s Howling Hex, which plows the radically different but equally worked-over field of nerd-rock whimsy on Earth Junk, starts promisingly, with a spooky clutter of hooting keyboards and echo-soaked vocals.
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It’s noisy, it’s incoherent at times, but above all it’s a joyous record that's totally Neil Hagerty: inaccessibly accessible.
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Earth Junk doesn’t sound like anything else in his discography. However, it does betray Hagerty’s encyclopedic knowledge of rock history, which yields some respectful iconic nods and a few bizarre what-ifs.
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Q MagazineThe occasional tune shines through, but ultimately too much of the material sounds like it's aimlessly ad-libbed. [Oct 2008, p.147]