★★★★★
Blonde Redhead have been churning out records of psychedelic power pop for nearly two decades now, but it was only with the release of their last record, 23, where they threatened to stamp their mark into the mainstream. From the first thumping drum beats of 'Here Sometime's, the first track on Penny Sparkle, you get the impression that you are in for a repeat performance of 23, i...
- www.state.ie
2011-04-29
★★★★★
Buy / Listen: 7Digital | Amazon | eMusic | We7 | Spotify Blonde Redhead have been churning out records of psychedelic power pop for nearly two decades now, but it was only with the release of their last record, 23, where they threatened to stamp their mark into the mainstream. From the first thumping drum beats of 'Here Sometime's, the first track on Penny Sparkle, you get the impression that you are in for a repeat performance of 23, i...
- www.state.ie
2011-01-25
★★★★★
Penny Sparkle starts as it means to go on, very, very slowly. Abandoning their previous Sonic Youth aping albums, on Penny Sparkle Blonde Redhead opt for ambient electronica - a move that doesn't suit them. Electronic soundscapes don't play to Blonde Redhead strengths, despite singer Kazu Makino's wearied, narcoleptic vocals attempting to explore similar territory to My Bloody Valentine and other shoe-gaze adventurers...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-12-27
★★★★★
Known in the beginning of their career as little more than the best band to arrive late for the No-Wave party it became very clear extremely fast that there was more than just buzz and frayed melodies to these NYC art-rockers. Reaching a turning point with 2004's brooding dose of dark electro-pop Misery Is A Butterfly, Blonde Redhead had immerged a completely different beast than before...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
Comprised of Kazu Makino--a Japanese woman--and Amedeo and Simone Pace, two Italian-born, identical-twin brothers, New York-based Blonde Redhead cuts a distinctive image in a live setting. Looks are one thing, of course, but the band's tunes also happen to be consistently challenging and increasingly beautiful. With "Misery is a Butterfly," the group chooses the road toward mystery, heavy atmosphere, and complex angst...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Having largely abandoned the aggressive noise it cut its musical teeth on, the trio of Kazu Makino and Simone and Amadeo Pace seems to have found the dividing line between somnolence and unrest. "23," Blonde Redhead's seventh record, has Makino cooing and Amadeo Pace crooning over music that delivers its punches within velvet gloves. Tension is kept at a simmer; even a straightforward rocker like "Spring and by Summer Fall" is sanded of rough edges in favor of atmosphere...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Once upon a time Blonde Redhead were beautiful. It took a decade of suspiciously designer no wave, but with 2004's Misery Is a Butterfly they finally came into their own. A blood-chilling collection of songs, the mothball smell of antique desolation filled a very eerie setting of falling sand-timers and decaying flowers, ornate with dramatic strings and a porcelain sorrow. It was without doubt one of the releases of the year from a time when New York had more than five different sounds...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
When a band is anointed as the favourites of Sonic Youth, it would probably be fair to assume that the act in question is one for whom music isn't a mere distraction from the simple pleasures of groupies and hedonism, but a malleable and rewarding artform capable of changing lives or, at the very least, earning a slot at ATP...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
NYC trio Blonde Redhead have one of the most enviable careers and track records in music circles today - left to their own devices since their beginnings, the group churn out album after album of dark, stylish and sophisticated dream-field pop music, floating in a unique sound atmosphere inhabited by no one else...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
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