New Grenada review
New Grenada
Modern Problems
(Contraphonic)
Detroit quartet seems to think the fact Steve Albini recorded their third album is the most important thing about it.
Filled with the swagger that has come to define Detroit rock in the new millennium, New Grenada’s Modern Problems colors on the desk with snotty power pop anthems and post-modern hipster cool. At times painfully similar to other cynical, big-city co-ed bands, “Chump”‘s noise rock addiction and the empty-box thump of “You Said It” have the good kind of attitude problem. Oddly similar to a retro-fitted Superdrag when Shawn Knight has the mic, he often foils the album by staying within the lines. Yet the liners, back cover, and bio strategically namedrop Albini Albini Albini. He records lotsa bands. It’s the songs, stupids.
— Kevin Keegan
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