★★★★★
Capping off the night at Festival d'été's most intimate venue was Atlanta garage rock trio the Coathangers, who took the stage at Rue Saint-Joseph East hot spot Le Cercle at 11:30 p.m. to a packed crowd of partiers. With the majority of those in attendance wandering around with a beer or two in hand moments before the show, it was clear the crowd was ready to go off, and that they did...
- exclaim.ca
2015-07-12
★★★★★
You know when you spill tequila on your shirt, leaving you option to but to promptly suck the fabric in order to maximise alcohol yield? No? Well, do, according to their PR blurb, and they've made an album that is as resourceful their drinking habits: makes as serious an impact with a minimal set up as you are likely to find; stripped back, taut and menacing, it truly is a 'punk' record in the traditional sense. And I mean fast, thin and snotty punk, before it had offshoots and sub-sections...
- www.drownedinsound.com
2014-10-28
★★★★★
The Atlanta punk band the Coathangers originally formed as a joke, with song titles like "Nestle in My Boobies" (a classic) and "Don't Touch My Shit." But they've tightened up in the past few years, and the loss of the keyboardist Candice Jones, known to fans as Bebe Coathanger, seems to have helped them to get more serious. The songs on Suck My Shirt belong nominally to elemental Ramones-style punk, but the band covers a wide swath of territory without ever deviating from its core sound...
- wonderingsound.com
2014-03-25
★★★★★
Since their self-titled 2007 debut, The Coathangers have been spitting out playfully venomous guitar rock that sneers with "anything you can do, I can do better" attitude. Not half as serious as the progenitive riot grrl of Bikini Kill but not nearly as polished as the Donnas, the Coathangers write surly, puerile songs that are high on youthful boisterousness...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-03-25
★★★★★
The Atlanta punk band the Coathangers originally formed as a joke, with song titles like "Nestle in My Boobies" (a classic) and "Don't Touch My Shit." But they've tightened up in the past few years, and the loss of the keyboardist Candice Jones, known to fans as Bebe Coathanger, seems to have helped them to get more serious. The songs on Suck My Shirt belong nominally to elemental Ramones-style punk, but the band covers a wide swath of territory without ever deviating from its core sound...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-04-09
★★★★★
Tweet Yes, Eat All Of Our Shirts! Punk rock has seen a transformation in the past couple of years. It's been emerging as something, apparently, "marketable" (as if it wasn't before), but in a much more casual sense. The thought of someone consciously walking around in bondage and Manic Panic hair dye is such an early 2000s fantasy, people completely forgot the '90s...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-03-23
★★★★★
On the fourth album by Hotlanta-natives the Coathangers, the band is out to prove they have nothing to prove. When the band formed in 2006 on some jokey whim, they had little to no musical ability. Since then, this all-girl outfit has been honing their skills and joking their way to becoming a powerful voice in punk, headlining tours and supporting gigs with big ticket names like the Thermals and Black Lips.
Suck My Shirt sounds as grown-up an album as one could expect from the Coathangers...
- www.cmj.com
2014-03-21
★★★★★
The Coathangers' debut album had a song called "Shut the Fuck Up", and the elements were few: a tom-heavy thwack, brief guitar stabs, and a basic keyboard melody. The lyrics, like so many others by the Atlanta punks, are aggressive: "You said I broke your heart and you'll never love again/ Let's tell the truth you only like the way I give head." Then, the full band screams along the chorus: "Well grow up, and then shut the fuck up...
- pitchfork.com
2014-03-19
★★★★★
The Coathangers kick off their fourth album with "Follow Me," a burst of slashing guitar and brutal, stomping drums. It's perhaps the best song in the band's seven-year run, managing to convey both the relentless energy of primitive punk rock and an endlessly listenable charm. The difference between the song on record and the subversive, audacious fun of its video constitutes a sort of statement of purpose for The Coathangers...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2014-03-19
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