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The Pack A.D. – We Kill Computers – (Mint, 2010)

Lord almighty, do they rock – in a gritty, unhinged, kind-of frightening manner.
–Ben Rayner (Toronto Star)

Vancouver bombast-blues duo The Pack A.D., which, judging by the considerable buzz in the crowd afterward, pretty much blew the minds of everyone. Led by the scarily soulful dynamo known as Becky Black, the Pack A.D. was a two-woman demolition squad. If you didn’t arrive a fan, you definitely left a true-blue convert.
–Michael Usinger (Georgia Straight Magazine)

The guitar and drum duo from Vancouver – who have the charmingly alliterative names Becky Black and Maya Miller – were the first band I had seen this year that didn’t seem to care one iota about whether people liked them or not….I know The Pack A.D. are not into any overt female empowerment trip, and I’m grateful for it – they’re just two girls who happen to make raw, amazing music – but at the risk of sounding completely maudlin, it was inspiring seeing two women rock the fuck out and derive obvious pleasure in the bargain. Best show of Pop Explosion for me, ladies and gentlemen.
–Alison Lang (SoundProof Magazine)

Let us count the ways that the Pack A.D. hates you. Black belts out the words, Miller pounding away on drums. “Don’t Have To”, arguably the single from Funeral Mixtape is a no-holds-barred admittance to not being nice girls. Lyrics bounce between not having to like people for the nice things they do, to not having to like them because of the bad things that happen to them. It’s this sort of we-don’t-need-you-anyways charm that makes the otherwise approachable Pack A.D. just inaccessible enough to be desirable.–Tara-Michelle Ziniuk (!earshot)

We Kill Computers begins with a sound test, a distorted riff first played into the left speaker, then the right, before kicking into high gear — it never looks back from there. Each track on this album showcases the band in a relentless assault on their instruments. The first pause in the album is a few seconds after the sixth song “Big Anvil,” when drummer Maya Miller can be heard saying “Ah! Two brand new sticks in a row!” It’s not hard to see why, as the next song begins with a raucous, pounding drum intro.

This album was recorded in the same studio as fellow Vancouver two-piece Japandroids, but whereas they’re a duo because of the work finding a third member would entail, the Pack A.D. are a two-piece because their approach is decidedly minimalist. Sticking to a distortion and riff-heavy template, every song on this album sounds like it wants to kick your teeth in. Only on one song, “They Know Me,” does Miller trade her drum sticks for brushes, and it’s immediately followed by “K Stomp,” which features a drum and feedback intro which crosses into pure cacophony.
The Pack A.D. – We Kill Computers (2010) releases April 27th