| Rock & Roll Submarine | ||||
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| Released | May 10, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Length | 39:17 | |||
| Label | UO Records [1] | |||
| Producer | Urge Overkill | |||
| Urge Overkill chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The New Zealand Herald | [3] |
| Pitchfork | 5.8/10 [4] |
Rock & Roll Submarine is an album by alternative rock band Urge Overkill, released in 2011. [5] It was their first album in sixteen years. [6]
Spin wrote: "Calcifying their trademark lounge leer into a dead-eyed glare, singer-guitarists Nash Kato and Ed 'King' Roeser ply curdled Bad Company riffs and a seedy, confessional air, serving up shit cocktails to anyone foolish enough to swallow ’90s nostalgia." [7] The A.V. Club wrote that the band "keeps the Nuge-style riffage on Rock & Roll Submarine rooted in the realities of basement-show grime, tamping down the old stadium-ruling ambitions with wanton sloppiness and purposefully duller hooks." [8] The Washington Post wrote that if the album "displays less attitude than Urge’s ’90s work, that’s probably because [Eddie] Roeser has gradually supplanted the flashier [Nash] Kato as the principal songwriter." [9] The New Yorker thought that the Urge Overkill of Rock & Roll Submarine "offers a more raw sound, but with tightly arranged and raspingly sung anthems." [10]
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