EW's GRADE
B

Details Release Date: Jan 29, 2008; Lead Performance: Chris Wallace; Genre: Indie Rock

In 1998, the revolution will be noise, and this 19-year-old sonic maverick fires the first worthy salvo, combining art-punk cacophony and radical politics with subversive sampling, and industrial-strength hip-hop beats for a dance-floor Molotov cocktail bar none. Bomb 20 also get points for creativity — where else are you going to hear Woody Allen sampled alongside Public Enemy-style siren wails? A-

Originally posted Aug 21, 1998 Published in issue #446-447 Aug 21, 1998 Order article reprints
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