★★★★★
I can't have been the only person charmed into purchasing Escape From Dragon House - the second album by Dengue Fever - on the strength an early press shot of the group. The photograph in question was taken in a room where sunlight streams in through honeycombed window shutters. The band's Cambodian singer - Chhom Nimol - is dressed in a floral silk dress with her hair up, like some beauty from the 1950s...
- www.noripcord.com
2011-06-20
★★★★★
It's now a decade since brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman founded Dengue Fever, after meeting Cambodian karaoke singer Chhom Nimol at a nightclub in LA's 'Little Phnom Penh' neighbourhood. Over the course of five albums and two EPs, their fusion of Cambodian pop, Californian surf/garage rock and more has blurred the artificial boundaries between world music and pop/trash culture with plenty of style and humour...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2011-06-06
★★★★★
Sure, Dengue Fever deserves its fair share of credit as the one and only Cambodian pop/alterna-rock crossover around, but it's also hard to shake the feeling that there's some gimmickry involved with being multi-culti trailblazers...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-06-06
★★★★★
Dengue Fever have been plying their exciting collision of Los Angeles garage rock-surf psych with 60s Cambodian pop sensibilities for a decade now. In Cambodia itself they've not only received enthusiastic responses from local audiences, but have, in return, given something back with their charitable involvements. Contrastingly, they've also recently spent time in theatre orchestra pits performing their own soundtrack to the silent film classic The Lost World...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
Cannibal Courtship sees Cambodian/American rockers Dengue Fever return with their first album since 2008's Venus On Earth, an album that helped establish them as purveyors of exotically charged psychedelic guitar rock. On Cannibal Courtship the core of the band is still made up of brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman and Cambodian singer Chhom Nimol...
- www.musicomh.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
LA's Dengue Fever is gaining momentum in music critic and indie rock circles thanks to their genre blurring. World grooves meet psych pop, new wave and a little classic rock as Cambodian singer; Chhom Nimol leads the charge in her quirky, Blondie-esque croon. The band drops Cannibal Courtship on Concord Records. Courtship is a rare album with its own sound. "Only a Friend" carries a versatile, horn inflected groove that shines underneath Nimol's odd voice...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2011-05-05
★★★★★
LA's Dengue Fever is gaining momentum in music critic and indie rock circles thanks to their genre blurring. World grooves meet psych pop, new wave and a little classic rock as Cambodian singer; Chhom Nimol leads the charge in her quirky, Blondie-esque croon. The band drops Cannibal Courtship on Concord Records. Courtship is a rare album with its own sound. "Only a Friend" carries a versatile, horn inflected groove that shines underneath Nimol's odd voice...
- glidemagazine.com
2011-05-02
★★★★★
Anyone whose ever seen Cambodian pop combo Dengue Fever, knows that live is where they really shine. Their records are all fantastic, but somehow, those songs sound even better live, the vibe festive and celebratory, the band more loose, and the sound allowed to blossom, and in some cases explode...
- aquariusrecords.org
2011-04-25
★★★★★
It would be really easy to write off Dengue Fever as a novelty band. After all, their fusion of California surf rock, Ethiopian jazz, and 1960s Cambodian pop is anything but mainstream -- much of it is sung in lead vocalist Chhom Nimol's native Khmer language -- and not likely to start any new trends. That's just as well, however, as I can't imagine another group delivering this kind of music quite as well as Dengue Fever...
- popdose.com
2011-04-20
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