Big Black The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape

4 Stars - Excellent - "...What the Velvet Underground's WHITE LIGHT/WHITE HEAT and NEVER MIND THE BULLOCKS, HERE'S THE SEX PISTOLS were to their eras, ATOMIZER was to the Eighties--an album that confronted the horror of the everyday with a sound to match..."
"...Big Black took guitar as we know it to new wailing, scraping, aggressive heights--one of the most challenging, intelligent, and distinctive groups to emerge in the mid '80s....ATOMIZER is near perfect, sporting innumerable layers of noise and differing musical styles delivered with unmatchable power..."
"...Barbed with oblique political venom and the most abrasive sounds ever coaxed out of electric guitars, this reissue of a mid-'80s compilation from Chicago's uncompromising Big Black seethes with scrawny punk antagonism and virulent musical imagination..." - Rating: B
10 - Classic - "...[ATOMIZER] remains Big Black's finest work, ten tales from America's butt end. Rarely before or since has the Land Of The Free sounded so disgusting or so appallingly attractive...sheer unhinged fury..."