★★★★★
Release Date: February 12, 2013 Something about the world today / Makes a boy feel a bit insane. And so begins The Sticks, the newest release from the Canadian art-pop group Mother Mother. It's pop music, but it comes with an edge that sounds straight out of the hip art school in some booming city where everything is fresh and new again. It's pretty and lush when it's not haunting, and sometimes even when it is...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-05-11
★★★★★
If art rockers Mother Mother were graded on ambition alone, the Canadian outfit featuring complex song structures, intricate three part (two gals, one dude) harmonies, angular melodic shifts and some of the most satirical lyrics this side of Frank Zappa would get five stars. But ambition and talent, while important, aren't everything, making this quality release--the group's fourth- more interesting than it is enjoyable...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Mother Mother Get Away From it All They may not admit it, but with Mother Mother's fourth release, a fully formed concept album has emerged that is at once in agreement and in conflict with its escapist message. The Sticks starts with youthfulness. Frontman Ryan Guldemond harmonizes in the opener "Omen" with a child, presumably his younger self...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-02-21
★★★★★
While the Vancouver-based rock band Mother Mother has been around since 2005, many people outside of Canada may not know the band or their music. While Mother Mother formed when Ryan Guldemond and his sister Molly joined together with Debra-Jean Creelman to play Ryan's music live in concert, the band now consists of Ryan on vocals and guitar, Molly on vocals and keyboards, Jasmin Parkin on keyboard and vocals, Jeremy Page on bass and Ali Siadat on drums...
- rockandrollreport.com
2011-10-31
★★★★★
Eureka by Mother Mother might be my favorite album of the moment. This of course is a dubious award because it is a temporary title, much like World's Greatest Day, which I won this year much to my own father's chagrin. That is the nature of the beast and who am I to argue with nature or beasts? Exactly. If you are unfamiliar with Mother Mother, as I was until recently, they are a Canadian indie rock 5 piece that make some of the most infectious pop drenched rock on either side of the border...
- www.syffal.com
2011-05-30
★★★★★
It's no secret that Canada is good to people with ears. It has produced some of the best bands of recent years, although many remain overlooked in the UK. Their penchant for melodic, romantic indie pop and the central boy/girl vocal dynamic means Canadian quintet Mother Mother are frequently reminiscent of fellow countrymen Stars and The New Pornographers. However, third album 'Eureka' impresses on its own merits and poses a bold, confident addition to any Canadaphile's collection...
- www.themusicfix.co.uk
2011-05-16
★★★★★
"It's like paradise/spread out with a butter knife!" So outer space is described in a memorable line from "The Stand", the first single from Vancouver rock band Mother Mother's third LP. If the song has a function on Eureka besides providing infectious fun, it's to demonstrate how the band's familiar strengths and new experiments co-exist in their new work...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-05-16
★★★★★
Eureka, indeed. Picking up where their last album, O My Heart, left off, Vancouver, BC five-piece Mother Mother's third album finds the band set on overdrive, amping up almost every aspect of their sound. Thankfully, the quintet have retained the oddball quirkiness that endeared them to fans in the first place...
- www.exclaim.ca
2011-03-21
★★★★★
Mother Mother found their way into radio rotation with Body Of Years, the biggest single from their last album, and though they've made no secret of their continued crossover ambitions, they also thankfully haven't sanded the edges off their eccentric pop aesthetic. Like their Vancouver peers the New Pornographers, Mother Mother aim straight for the subconscious, cramming in as many earworms as humanly possible. And yet their unusual compositions avoid sugar ?rot...
- nowtoronto.com
2011-03-07
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