Relationship Of Command

Rolling Stone (1/4/01, p.106)
- Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums of 2000 - "...Hard-bolied brigands with MC5 guitars and heads full of revolutionary spleen..."

Rolling Stone (9/28/00, p.58)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...A bracing tonic for our millenial malaise, wrought from equal doses punk, politico-metal-rap and vintage White Panther rage..."

Spin (1/01, p.73)
- Ranked #5 in Spin's "Top 20 Albums of the Year [2000]" - "...Combines artily abtruse lyrics with thunderously direct guitars...forging a sound [that's] big, thick, and gnarly, capable of evoking the ferocious power of a mushroom cloud..."

Entertainment Weekly (9/15/00, p.79)
- "...At times, ferociously intense, other times stirring, it never fails to excite." - Rating: A

Q (12/00, p.118)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...A vibrant, exciting new arrival."

Mojo (11/00, p.96)
- "...Breathless, urgent rifferama, elements of which can be traced to RATM, The Stooges and...Placebo..."

Uncut (10/00, p.80)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "...[A] riotous fusion of MC5 hairdos and Fugazi sonics....A wired, convulsing fit of an album..."

Uncut (p.89)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "[W]ith big anthems lurching out of the turbulence."

Alternative Press (11/00, pp.96-7)
- 4 out of 5 - "...They're a rock band who can write stellar hooks....COMMAND is a strong album..."

CMJ (1/08/01, p.8)
- Picked as CMJ's "#1 Album of the Year" from 2000.

CMJ (8/28/00, p.3)
- "...It couldn't sound more 'now', with a timeless intensity and a brutal honesty that rivals the greatest of DC hardcore....With this record, ATDI rockets into the realm of the legendary Fugazi..."

NME (12/30/00, p.77)
- Ranked #5 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year".

NME (9/23/00, p.34)
- 9 out of 10 - "...Absolutely storming....of the 11 tracks contained within, there is not a pedestrian moment...They deliver in style..."

Melody Maker (9/19/00, p.50)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...From the MC5, to Big Black, to Rage, to Fugazi, to The Make-Up...ATDI effortless assimilate influences to create 2000's most viscerally exhausting album..."