Is it time to re-evaluate Metallica's least-loved album and celebrate it for the extraordinary work that it is? But enough about Lulu. Keith Kahn-Harris wants to talk about St. Anger…
There is a contrarian impulse in music criticism just as there is in the wider public sphere; an impulse as ironically predictable in its inevitability. Rest assured that The Quietus is not Spiked and I am not Brendan O’Neil. I am not about to argue that St. Anger is a lost masterpiece. Much of the torrent of criticism it has received justifiably points out its flaws:
The bizarre, clanging drum sound.The directionlessness meandering of most of the songs.The lack of solos to leaven the riff salad.The artless, almost-adolescent ‘honesty’ of the lyrics.
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