KILLING PURITANS

Rolling Stone (8/3/00, p.55) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A pugnacious party album....KILLING PURITANS may come to be known as the album that launched Gangsta House." Spin (1/01, p.73) - Ranked #9 in Spin's "Top 20 Albums of the Year [2000]". Spin (7/00, pp.147-8) - 8 out of 10 - "...Confliction has never sounded better....gritty trademark house variants conjure the feel of a packed club when [stuff] is blowing up. The one-two KO comes mid-set....his greatest come-hither record yet..." Q (7/00, p.124) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Equates musical snobbery with global capitalism and proclaims 'Individualism is God'. This effectively translates as a punk-rock snottiness and attendant fondness for brazenly simplistic conceits..." Uncut (8/00, p.85) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A diverse excursion to The Paradise Garage, the floor of the Boutique, Rio Carnival and all spots in-between..." CMJ (6/26/00, p.3) - "...A rough 'n' randy concoction of beats and bass..." Melody Maker (6/13/00, p.81) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...[It] has a kind of giggling exuberance that's as near to Beavis & Butt-head as it is to Shanks & Bigfoot....the message is simple - you can't beat dance music that rocks..." Mojo (Publisher) (6/00, p.104) - "...The nearest thing America has to Fatboy Slim....[the album] has the same cheekily opportunistic spirit [of its predecessor], Van Helden's sticky fingers busily probing all kinds of forgotten pop cultural corners..." NME (Magazine) (5/20/00, p.41) - 7 out of 10 - "...Van Helden rocks....[The album] is well-crafted and commendably diverse....[He] is great at creating slamming neo-disco hooks..."