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Jul 22, 2015The world needed a rough-hewn reminder of how achingly powerful two guitars pawing and scratching at each other while a rhythm section spars alongside them. Works For Tomorrow does just that.
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Aug 27, 2015Eleventh Dream Day are living in the moment, and they have never sounded madder than they do on Works for Tomorrow. They also sound, on their own terms, quite superb, and not at all like they’re trying to keep the past alive.
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Q MagazineJul 30, 2015God only knows how they stay this angry, or this compelling. [Sep 2015, p.110]
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UncutJul 28, 2015An enduring tenacity runs through Works For Tomorrow, one of the best and feistiest entries in their catalogue. [Sep 2015, p.73]
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MojoJul 28, 2015Furthering their Sonic Youth/Television post-punk quests. [Sep 2015, p.95]
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Jul 28, 2015This might be their most enjoyable release since 1991's Lived To Tell.
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Jul 21, 2015Eleventh Dream Day acknowledges its past and could fit in comfortably with the big dogs.
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Jul 20, 2015Works For Tomorrow just gets better and better with every successive--and necessarily louder--airing, to the point where it does indeed feel like another genuinely great Eleventh Dream Day long-player.
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Jul 20, 2015Works for Tomorrow stands alongside their best albums.
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Aug 7, 2015Works is a crisp, punchy-sounding record, not far from the unfussy, live-in-a-room feel of early triumphs like Prairie School Freakout.
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MagnetAug 12, 2015Works For Tomorrow maybe doesn't sound quite as fiery as 1988's Prairie School Freakout, 1989's Beet or, even, 2011's Riot Now! But it gets awfully close. [No. 123, p.57]
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The WireAug 5, 2015At heart they're still most comfortable plying scruffy barstool romanticism woven from the same plaid as contemporaries The Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. [Aug 2015, p.58]
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Jul 20, 2015Cork out of the bottle, the first half of Works For Tomorrow, from the fist-pounding title track strewn with crooked spring guitar solos, to the anti-psych freakout out “Cheap Gasoline”, to their spirited cover of Zappa affiliates Judy Henske and Jerry Yester’s “Snowblind”, pops and foams over.
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Jul 20, 2015It often has the spontaneous feel of a live show, and Mark Greenberg's unfussy production serves to amplify that rawness.