Rock & Roll Submarine

Rock & Roll Submarine
Studio album by
Urge Overkill
ReleasedMay 10, 2011
GenreAlternative rock
Length39:17
LabelUO Records[1]
ProducerUrge Overkill
Urge Overkill chronology
Exit the Dragon
(1995) 		Rock & Roll Submarine
(2011) 		Oui
(2022)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The New Zealand Herald[3]
Pitchfork5.8/10[4]

Rock & Roll Submarine is an album by alternative rock band Urge Overkill, released in 2011.[5] It was their first album in sixteen years.[6]

Critical reception

Spin wrote: "Calcifying their trademark lounge leer into a dead-eyed glare, singer-guitarists Nash Kato and Ed 'King' Roeser ply curdled Bad Company riffs and a seedy, confessional air, serving up shit cocktails to anyone foolish enough to swallow ’90s nostalgia."[7] The A.V. Club wrote that the band "keeps the Nuge-style riffage on Rock & Roll Submarine rooted in the realities of basement-show grime, tamping down the old stadium-ruling ambitions with wanton sloppiness and purposefully duller hooks."[8] The Washington Post wrote that if the album "displays less attitude than Urge’s ’90s work, that’s probably because [Eddie] Roeser has gradually supplanted the flashier [Nash] Kato as the principal songwriter."[9] The New Yorker thought that the Urge Overkill of Rock & Roll Submarine "offers a more raw sound, but with tightly arranged and raspingly sung anthems."[10]

Track listing

  1. "Mason/Dixon"—2:58
  2. "Rock & Roll Submarine"—4:01
  3. "Effigy"—3:44
  4. "Poison Flower"—2:32
  5. "Little Vice"—3:14
  6. "Thought Balloon"—4:13
  7. "Quiet Person"—3:23
  8. "She's My Ride"—3:33
  9. "End of Story"—3:24
  10. "The Valiant"—3:45
  11. "Niteliner"—2:21
  12. "Touched to a Cut"—2:09

References

  1. ^ "Urge Overkill: Rock & Roll Submarine". PopMatters. June 12, 2011.
  2. ^ "Rock & Roll Submarine - Urge Overkill". AllMusic.
  3. ^ "Album Review: Urge Overkill, Rock & Roll Submarine". NZ Herald.
  4. ^ "Urge Overkill: Rock & Roll Submarine". Pitchfork.
  5. ^ "Urge Overkill | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. ^ "Get Submerged with Urge Overkill's Rock & Roll Submarine". SF Weekly. May 17, 2011.
  7. ^ "Urge Overkill, 'Rock & Roll Submarine' (UO)". Spin. May 10, 2011.
  8. ^ "Urge Overkill: Rock&Roll Submarine". Music.
  9. ^ Jenkins, -Mark (July 7, 2011). "Album review: Urge Overkill's 'Rock & Roll" – via www.washingtonpost.com.
  10. ^ "Urge Overkill". The New Yorker.