★★★★★
Seattle's Murder City Devils' initial run was a near-breakthrough, but they ultimately only viewed the promised land from a distance while supporting Pearl Jam and At The Drive-In. Lasting from 1996 to 2001, they remain largely disregarded outside of tattoo shops and dive bars and Washington state, despite the notability of their post-breakup projects including Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Cave Singers, Triumph Of Lethargy Skinned Alive To Death, Melvins, Cold War Kids, and Modest Mouse, to...
- www.avclub.com
2014-08-05
★★★★★
This Seattle band's first studio album in 14 years is a visceral blend of menacing garage-rock and moody post-punk, combining a raw, gritty sound with Spencer Moody's gravelly vocals and dark lyrics. 8/1/2014
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- kexp.org
2014-08-02
★★★★★
Genre: Punk Year: 2003 Country: USA Official Site: Murder City Devils Details: Tracks & Audio Label: Sub Pop Records First, I didn't pay for this CD. Second, I'd never heard of the Murder City Devils before I was asked to review this CD. That said, the album was quite an experience for me. As the liner notes explain, this album is the end of a long tour by the band, and they're ending it in Seattle, Wash., where they started...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
This is the final opus. This is the death throe. This is the final documentation of Seattle's Murder City Devils, who have all gone on to other, and perhaps greater, projects. Bass player Derek Fudesco launched Pretty Girls Make Graves shortly after the 2001 demise of the The Murder City Devils, and after a successful debut LP on Lookout, the band has signed to Matador...
- www.lostatsea.net
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Sound: This band has great, fun guitar leads and rhythms, reggae esque bass lines, spontaneous drum beats, and slightly depressing organs, but what truly makes this band special, are the howls and burst of alcoholic depression, from spencer moody. The lead pipes for the group...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Seattle's Murder City Devils, now shrunken to a six-piece, deliver another little gem of garage rock with In Name And Blood. Whether it's the band's growth, the new, improved keyboard contributions of Leslie Hardy and their gothic overtones, or drummer Coady Willis' powerful, acrobatic drumming, the album sounds like a Greek tragedy set to raw and wild rock and roll...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
All hellfire and brimstone, the Murder City Devils unleash torrents of rye-soaked, blistering noise on In Name and Blood. Beaten along mercilessly by Leslie Hardy's warbling, drunken keyboard incantations, In Name and Blood will have you quickly reaching for a bottle of cheap booze, your lucky strikes, and possibly even some brass knuckles or a shiny new switchblade. This is bloodthirsty, lean punk to plot your next back-alley murder to...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
howling for their supper ("That's What You Get," "364 Days");
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Question: where, exactly, does the Murder City moniker come from? Correct me if I'm wrong, but to my knowledge, there hasn't been a violent outbreak in Seattle since that overzealous Granola-muncher threw a brick through a Starbucks Coffee window in 1997. And why am I asking you? Like you know, or give a shit. Well...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-08
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