The Pack A.D.
The Pack A.D. could be anti-social outcasts who have trust issues or they could just be honest to a fault. When we live in a world of social networking where people offer up mundane details masked as intimacy to "friends" and "acquaintances" alike, where everyone looks like everyone and everyone can do everything... what's left?
Following through on 2008's devastating one-two punch (January's Tintype and August's Funeral Mixtape), we kill computers is The Pack A.D.'s third album and it marks a bold departure away from the blues and headfirst into straight up garage rock/pop/punk. Recorded live off the floor to analog tape at Hive Studios in Vancouver by Jesse Gander (Japandroids, Bison b.c.) and then mastered at GhettoRecorders in Detroit by Jim Diamond (Dirtbombs, Detroit Cobras), we kill computers is a rapid fire assault of 13 heavy, heavy songs.
When The Pack A.D. plays a show they hand the audience their guts - and they did just, 157 times in 2009 alone. That's why we kill computers, a full year in the making, captures that same live energy — fierce, unapologetic, and loud as hell. Lyrically, The Pack A.D. offers up their general mistrust of humans and their motives, while tipping off that animals have got it right. Sonically charged and relentless, The Pack A.D. don't play a song so much as attack it — and we kill computers is them coming at you at a run.
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The pair have made a name for themselves as badass, blues-loving, rock hellions. Critics, bloggers, and fans wax poetic about the pair’s unique ability to harken back to a time decidedly cooler and yank it by the chest hairs into the future.
Exclaim!
What’s great about we kill computers is, in part, the way the Pack a.d. confidently incorporates everything from turbo-blasted rawk to sugar-buzzed punk to ghost-on- thehighway country. But the real beauty of the Vancouver duo’s third fulllength is more abstract in nature: just when you thought you had a pretty good handle on where Black and Miller are coming from, they’ve created an album that makes you realize you don’t really know them at all.
Georgia Straight
Together, the Pack A.D. sound fierce, focused, and as deeply committed as nearly any band out there today, and they’re not at all wrong to believe in themselves; this album lays out a hard and heavy wall of sound that should impress anyone with ears.
AllMusic.com
Forget the White Stripes comparisons – the Pack a.d. now makes its own gritty, awesome statement.
Globe & Mail
Though renowned for their intense live shows, their recorded output lacks for nothing. Third album We Kill Computers is absolutely essential listening, with a raw simplicity as compelling as watching a bonfire blaze. They’ve taken a firmer hand this time around, casting aside just a little of their bluesy influences for a more adroit garage rock sound and with a little more melody in the mix. This album is the sound of a band getting better and better with every gutsy outing.
’Sup Magazine
There is just enough power housed here to make a fan out of most anyone that hears the album; the hook is in the strength of the delivery. There’s no doubt it will catch, and that means it will suddenly become very interesting to see what happens to The Pack a.d. next and where they choose to steer listeners.
Ground Control Mag
While the pair was never anything short of bombastic on their earlier output, We Kill Computers is indeed the fiercest we’ve seen Miller and B. Filled with raging numbers like the thumping ‘Big Anvil,’ which features a crashing guitar line and Black’s incredible smoky wail, and the heavy charger ‘Deer,’ the new material isn’t for the faint of heart.
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