★★★★★
In late '80s and early '90s England, the Madchester sound was at the forefront of British rock culture. Helmed by classic bands like the Stone Roses and the Happy Mondays, the bands in this scene combined psychedelia, funk, house music, and guitar rock in a variety of ways and with varying degrees of success. Of the era, The Stone Roses' self titled debut album and the Happy Mondays' Pills, Thrills, and Bellyaches remain important and enduring documents...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-11-01
★★★★★
Jagwar Ma
Howlin'
[Marathon Artists; 2013]
By Brendan Frank ; August 26, 2013
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Growing up in Sydney, Gabriel Winterfield and Jono Ma were never in the environment that pushed or even asked for the layered, spongy psychedelics of their debut album...
- beatsperminute.com
2013-08-27
★★★★★
If you're looking at a map of Earth, the chunk of land in the bottom right of the rectangular world has recently become the home for innovative and addicting psychedelic rock. And Sydney-based duo Jagwar Ma is one of its latest most-buzzed-about exports thanks to this, their debut LP. Drenched in echoed vocals and layered synth lines, Howlin maintains an incredibly optimistic, carefree tone. Maybe the band says it best themselves: "When you're gloomy, howlin looks so good to me."
- filtermagazine.com
2013-08-14
★★★★★
Jagwar Ma's debut album, Howlin, takes the listener on a trip back through the alternative rock of the '90s, making stops along the way to delve into shoegaze, baggy dance jams, spaced-out psychedelic dream pop, bedroom electronic, and even the much maligned big beat sound. The genius move the duo makes is that when they come back from their trip they only brought back the good parts and none of the elements like "Funky Drummer" breakbeats or grunge guitars that would have dated the project...
- www.allmusic.com
2013-10-05
★★★★★
For a country that pride themselves on advancing their own 'fare', Australians have clearly benefited a lot from building upon the 60's English sound recently. While Tame Impala and Empire of the Sun are easily cited as being the obvious champions of a rebuilt psychedelic movement, Sydney based two (and sometimes three) piece, Jagwar Ma, have taken the genre in another direction and to another level completely with much hyped debut album, Howlin...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2013-07-17
★★★★★
This Australian duo's excellent debut album is strongly rooted in late '80s-early '90s Manchester dance-rock (Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Inspiral Carpets), which blended psych-rock and New Wave pop with acid house, techno, funk and other dance styles. Jagwar Ma provide a production update to the sound while effortlessly blending the above styles and more with a smartly executed combination of bright keyboards, trippy psych guitars, baggy dance beats, impressive harmonies and sunny melodies...
- kexp.org
2013-07-04
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare Lose Yourself or Lose Interest Howlin is the debut album from Australian newcomers Jagwar Ma. The duo have crafted a time machine of sorts, taking us back to several decades of influences that aren't seen much in the current world of buzzworthy music. The rock here is spacious and drawn out and swirling in psychedelia, yet there are drum machines aplenty to pull listeners along and encourage us to move to the beat...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-06-22
★★★★★
Let's take account of Madchester's enduring images: a heavy-lidded Ian Brown moaning "I wanna be adored" but not sounding like he wants to be awake. Bez freaky-dancin' his way through the Happy Mondays' prime and not even being the most loutish guy in the group. The rumors that Shaun Ryder ditched a meeting with EMI to score heroin, which was referred to as "KFC" by the band. And the sweaters...
- pitchfork.com
2013-06-21
★★★★★
Jagwar Ma Howlin FutureClassic For a band who so obviously deserve to be on everyone's radar, Sydney's Jagwar Ma have been flying below it for quite some time. The sonic partnership of Jono Ma (ex-Lost Valentinos) and Gabriel Winterfield (remember Ghostwood?) was born from mutual respect and years of growing up touring alongside one another, despite their difference in age and musical tastes...
- www.thevine.com.au
2013-06-17
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