★★★★★
Taking off from my review of "Blue", "Alive" in it's entirety is exactly what I was saying last week -- the album challenges our existing idea of what the "Big Bang sound" is, and it makes us think. I was looking through people's comments of the EP, and a recurring theme is that it sounds far too pop, that they've abandoned their R&B beginnings...
- popreviewsnow.blogspot.com
2012-03-06
★★★★★
After pulling a Wolfmother by parting ways with his rhythm section after his band's first album, Norwegian rocker Oystein Greni decamped to Los Angeles, hooked up with drummer Olaf Olsen and bassist Nikolai Eilertsen and continued exploring classic rock tropes under the name Bigbang (no space, please) on Album Number Two, Edendale--a record that's gone platinum in his home country, and hit U.S. shores earlier this winter...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Strong, clear reverberations of Sixties electric California and Seventies power pop roll through Edendale, the second American release by Norwegian trio Bigbang. But this is a modern classic-rock band, and that is no contradiction. Singer-songwriter-guitarist Øystein Greni shuffles his references with ingenuity and melodic freshness...
- www.rollingstone.com
2010-03-25
★★★★★
Sound: The Norwegian rock band BigBang has on this record made themselves "new". The sound is more Americanized, either for the good or bad of it. The band is heading to the states and trying to get noticed, and it is propably that this album will. It sound generally as south western rock, with a little beach on it. The album is not perhaps a very innovative album, but the music is prefect for relaxing and a good party...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
The Norwegian rock band Big Bang got a big break when they were chosen to open for Jack White's Raconteurs on the UK leg of their 2006 European tour. The band's rockabilly country-pop is perfect for lubing up the crowd before White and Benson ram some signature blues rock down their throats. The Wild Bird EP is Big Bang's initial attempt to hit the North American market before their full-length comes out later this year...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-22