2020
"Eight Rounds Rapid are the real-deal. Music made out of necessity. I love their work. It’s drama, humour, anger, precision and character. Fire and skill. Words and music. Life and death. Here and now..."
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Ged Babey
10/10
— Louder than War
"Very few groups bestride the old and the new like a time-travelling colossus in the way ERR do..."
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David Quantick
9/10
— Classic Rock Magazine
"One of the country's most vital contemporary guitar wielding combos..."
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Phil Alexander
4/5
— Mojo
"A class act."
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Russ Bestley
9/10
— Vive le Rock
"Animated, cohesive, and yet blurred at the edges with the ferocity and colour of movement. They are a fireball of abrasive musicality and brain food lyrics, and the combination brings a gripping, propulsive momentum like The Fast & The Furious but written by Charles Dickens and illustrated by William Hogarth.
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Paul F. Cook
— Joyzine
2017
2013
"This is fucking great".
Nick Tesco
9/10
— Vive le Rock
"Eight Rounds Rapid sound like every kind of punk... but mostly they remind you of nobody but themselves ".
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David Quantick
7/10
— Classic Rock
"Edgy, drugged-up thug punk. Loss Leader
is Thames Estuary crude given a vital contemporary twist. Invest now."
8/10
— Uncut
"David Alexander's quick-fire Essex drawl conveys barbed verse worthy of John Cooper Clarke or Mark E. Smith"
4/5
— Mojo
"Thrashing the moody cut-and-shut Mk1 Capri of Essex geezer rock like they stole
it. a welcome blast of no-frills, bullshit-free excitement that can only be deadly live."
7/10
— Classic Rock
"Promising debut album from Southend R&B ruffians Eight Rounds Rapid ".
8/10
— Louder than War
