Portland, ORs experimental music blog Foreign Accents: Just as they did decades ago, the feverish punk energy and the alien madness come together to create something really damn cool. This is a reunion album to be reckoned with. Chrome made music that was overwhelmingly strange– deranged punk running wild against an uneasy backdrop of menacing vocals, weird synthesizers, shortwave radios, and televisions. In a way, because they have strained so aggressively for such profound, bizarre symbolism, with little thought given to aesthetic pleasantness or even to having a clear-cut ideological “point”, Chrome are one of the most “punk” bands to ever exist. Moreover, their experiments with technology certainly prefigured the transition of sampling into mainstream music… --Mathew Sweeney foreignaccentspdx.wordpress/2014/09/08/new-album-review-chrome-feel-it-like-a-scientist/
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