★★★★★
After attracting attention a couple of years ago for bringing about the return of 1960s-inspired guitar pop, Los Angeles's Allah-Las could be entitled to feel a bit miffed that their former support band, Temples, have stolen their thunder. It's hard to listen to the young quartet's second album without feeling that their British counterparts are doing a similar thing, but with more robust grooves and more populist songs...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-09-12
★★★★★
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Allah-Las are a bunch of quintessential surfer dudes from Los Angeles that met whilst working at the world famous Ameoba Records, bonding over a passion for classic vinyl and bands such as Love and The Zombies. Their first record was a trip; a breezy soundtrack for the back end of the Summer of 2012, and a very good debut and introduction to an interesting and captivating rock'n'roll band...
- www.thefourohfive.com
2014-09-12
★★★★★
This LA band's second album is another well-crafted blend of '60s-steeped psych, surf, garage and folk-rock with jangly reverbed guitars and dreamy pop melodies. 8/1/2014
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- kexp.org
2014-08-02
★★★★★
Los Angeles quartet the Allah-Las have the most perfect of backstories for a group making such informed, articulate pop music. Three of the group's members met while serving time at the legendary LA record store, Amoeba, one of the best ways to learn your craft and do your listening, all while getting paid to schlep CD cases and LP sleeves into the aisles and across the counter...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Garage rock, even at its rowdiest, is inherently lonely music. It exists outside of time, allergic to trends and suspicious of new technologies, which makes it ideal for loners who feel alienated from culture. Garage rock also sounds solitary. If it is recorded correctly-- which is to say, if it feels like the audio was captured haphazardly by an amateur engineer in 1966-- this music will be alive and sloppy but also a little removed, particularly the vocals...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
This year's Mercury Prize list featured an unprecedented glut of acts who all eschew forward thinking in favour of the defiantly retrograde. Looking back over their shoulder - while standing with their feet glued firmly to the lino floor - hankering after a golden age certainly comes with its pitfalls and for the contrived and disingenuous, the cracks begin to show: you can generally sniff out an imposter...
- thequietus.com
2012-11-29
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Allah-LasAllah-LasInnovative Leisure2012 Amoeba Music is a celebrated record shop in Los Angeles, stuffed with old vinyl and the kind of people for whom the psychedelic pop era of the 60s represents the very apex of western civilisation...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-11-17
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Allah-LasAllah-LasInnovative Leisure2012 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album The debut album from LA four-piece Allah-Las has been...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-11-15
★★★★★
Close your eyes, roll your head back. Now look up at the California palms. Whether the coastline be Pacific or Persian Gulf, this debut by these Hanni El Khatib and Nick Waterhouse labelmates will strike a visceral cord with anyone who finds beauty in being blinded by the sun. Resurrecting ghosts of endless summers past, Allah-Las are modern surf and psych-rock at its best...
- filtermagazine.com
2012-09-20