Hope downs
Rolling Blackouts C.F.
Emneord
Anmeldelser (4)
Popmatters
d. 30. apr. 2018
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John Garratt
d. 30. apr. 2018
"YRU Still Here? is full of bluster, but the title track is probably the most tranquil thing on it. The keyboard hovering over the steadily strummed acoustic guitar isn't exactly relaxing -- ditto for the rhetorical question that keeps hitting the listener again and again. "Freak Freak Freak on the Peripherique" may sound like an awful lot of bouncy fun, but the album's undercurrent muddies the water just enough to remind the listener that Marc Ribot and Ceramic Dog will never take the easy way out, even during the best of times. Sometimes, that's how you stumble upon a future classic".
AllMusic
2018
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Matt Collar
2018
"Grounded by Ribot's mutative, buzzy guitar lines and the band's taut, often humorous lyrics piping with literate rage, YRU Still Here? has the feel of an '80s hardcore punk 7" recorded on a four-track over an intense few hours. While the band's dissonant, MC5-esque brand of punk, improvisational jazz, and avant-garde rock has always evinced a kind of leftist artistic ire, it's never been as overtly politically and socially minded as it is here ... Despite its title, YRU Still Here? is less about asking questions and more about Ribot, Ismaily, and Smith taking a defiant stand".
Salt peanuts
d. 5. maj 2018
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Eyal Hareuveni
d. 5. maj 2018
"When was the last time that you have listened to an album that its anger was so sheer, expressed in explosive intensity of balls-to-the-wall abandon, but an anger that still makes you dance (and, apparently, promised to be good for houseplants ... But «YRU Still Here?» is much more than an explosive cocktail of anger and political commentary. It is most of all a joyful and smart celebration of absurdist humor, smoky guitar solos, addictive, driving rhythms and irresistible, eclectic mix of funk, flamenco, Latin, punk, surf and rock n' roll. All is wrapped in a fiery, free jazz energy of a group that have perfected its tight interplay over the last ten years and sounds much larger than three musicians".
DownBeat
2018 June
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Jeff Woodard
2018 June
"Ceramic Dog is a fascinating new wrinkle in the diverse terrain of the decades-deep Ribot bandscape, going back to his groups The Rootless Cosmopolitans, Los Cubanos Postizos and The Young Philadelphians. This time out, he and his crew have mustered an angry, righteously indignant, sonically feverish and engaging variation on the party-band tradition, lined with a fresh brand of catharsis".