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Dancing Backward in High Heels

New York Dolls

Dancing Backward in High Heels

The follow-up to 2007's Cause I Says So from the punk / glam survivors, their 3rd since reforming

ADM rating[?]

6.7

Label
Savoy Jazz
UK Release date
14/03/2011
US Release date
15/03/2011
  1. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    Guitarist Sylvain Sylvain and singer David Johansen revel in their familiar 1950s influences and continue to write irresistible hooks
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  2. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    It would be dishonest to report that, aside maybe from one reggae track too many, they’re in anything but top form
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  3. 8.0 |   BBC

    Another quality release from perfect role models for the 21st century SAGA lout
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  4. 8.0 |   AU Review

    If the original Dolls are a history lesson, this is the after-school illicit meet-up with the teacher, something that is slightly dangerous, totally forbidden, and utterly enticing
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  5. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Unearths some of the band’s less visible roots
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  6. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    Unearths some of the band’s less visible roots, in Broadway musicals, soul balladry, Stones-y orchestral pop and Fifties R&B
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  7. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    Rather than aping their past, New York Dolls have kept their breathless lust in place while the music delves even further into their own influences
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  8. 7.0 |   NME

    There's a vitality, a shamelessness, an energy ... that shows why they mattered so damn much
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  9. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    A much more entertaining, and genuinely worthwhile, effort than we have any right to expect from a band of this heritage
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  10. 7.0 |   Rolling Stone

    Lipstick and howling-Stones guitars
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  11. 6.7 |   A.V. Club

    There’s just no stopping Johansen and Sylvain
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  12. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Reverberating with street-corner romanticism and hard-won wisdom
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  13. 6.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    Irrelevant and irreverent in equal measures
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  14. 6.0 |   Mojo

    A Dolls set like no other. Print edition only

  15. 6.0 |   Uncut

    Quite charming. Print edition only

  16. 6.0 |   Blurt

    Stalwarts may look askance, but with overt paeans to the music Johansen and Sylvain love, Dancing Backward in High Heels isn't an unexpected sidestep
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  17. 6.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Admirers and longtime fans will still lap this up
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  18. 2.0 |   The Independent

    It lacks both unity and quality
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