Your Review
CRITIC REVIEWS
80
These nuggets of pop inflection are strewn around the album, often obscured by ranted vocals, the scree of furious guitars, or the deep rattle of the bass but they are there.
80
Subtlety? They don’t want any. This is the music to drown out all other stimuli, and have a hell of a time while doing it.
70
On their sixth album, Winnipeg-based noise rock group KEN mode open up and calm down a bit, stepping away from the deafening aural assault of their previous albums for something more subtle and introspective.
60
Although Success is a very solid album, from a band that have already proved themselves consistently capable of churning out suitably bad-tempered and obtrusively loud material, it’s hard to feel it’s anything we haven’t heard before, which makes it far more underwhelming than its generally high quality content suggests it should be.
59
On Success, KEN mode’s altered musical approach is the only thing more tiring than Matthewson’s broadsides. They’re ensnared by a decade of talking shit they’re no longer equipped to handle.
50
On Success, Matthewson’s words aren’t as sharp and focused as the best noise rock aggressors, and the thinner instrumentals and production reveal that too clearly.
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Listen: KEN Mode – Those Tight Jeans 
END OF YEAR LISTS
| #38 | / | The Needle Drop |
| #46 | / | Treble |
Track List
- Blessed
- These Tight Jeans
- The Owl...
- I Just Liked Fire
- Management Control
- A Passive Disaster
- Failing at Fun Since 1981
- A Catalog of Small Disappointments
- Dead Actors
Added on: March 30, 2015
