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With Strong Drunk Hands, We’ll Go Machete furiously delivers on the promise of its 2009 EP. The Austin quartet fuses the calculated assault of Chicago noise-rock with the economical intensity of DC post-punk in a manner not seen in Texas perhaps since At the Drive-In. There’s not a runt in the 10-track litter, but “Kids in Front” and “Number 13,” in particular, go straight for the throat. 
This article appears in December 23 • 2011.
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