★★★★★
"'Green Flowers, Blue Fish' was originally recorded for the Keanu Reeves movie Johnny Mnemonic."
Quoted above is a short sentence from the Wikipedia page for this album, one of the scant five included in the article. Is this a proper legacy for this album? A footnote in relation to a footnote in Keanu's footnote-laden filmography? I can wholeheartedly say that this album deserves better. A whole lot better...
- www.punknews.org
2015-06-12
★★★★★
Part of the Merge imprint'scontinuing series of reissuesby Superchunk - the bandwho set the label up asa vehicle for releasing their ownalbums - comes Indoor Living.Originally released in 1997, itwas the sixth album by theinfluential indie rockers from Chapel Hill, and now comesremastered with a downloadof an official live bootleg froma gig from that year.
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-02-27
★★★★★
Indoor Living is a moody outlier in Superchunk's great early run. It's a 4 pm kind of record, a soundtrack for the moment when the sun hasn't set yet, the day is more behind us than ahead of us, and we're momentarily unsure of what to do with ourselves. Most people smooth over this unpleasant transition with a drink or three, but Indoor Living spends 48 minutes lingering there...
- pitchfork.com
2014-02-26
★★★★★
Thanks to a string of great albums--1991's No Pocky For Kitty , 1993's On The Mouth , 1994's Foolish , and 1995's Here's Where The Strings Come In --Superchunk could do no wrong in the lead-up to its sixth full-length. The band had enjoyed a creatively fertile, not to mention prolific run: By the time Superchunk released Indoor Living in 1997, it had six full-lengths, two singles/B-sides collections, and upward of 20 7-inches and EPs...
- www.avclub.com
2014-02-25
★★★★★
The music video for "Me & You and Jackie Mittoo" features photos of a bunch of music nerds holding up their favourite records, each small moment of glory scattered about the video's frame for seconds before dissolving into the Youtube rewind afterlife. Some dude likes Rush; another Yo La Tengo; I think makes an appearance fitting of what it is, held up by a sweet, well-dressed guy with a great toothy grin, because Refused are that punk band, right...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-01-30
★★★★★
Tweet ...But You Will Love This Add one more to the long list of '90s bands who are releasing new music in the 2010s. The best of these acts are not out to redefine themselves or conform to the conventions of today's high-tech, multi-layered indie rock. Instead, they are having fun doing whatever they were known for twenty years ago while at the same time proving that all you really need to make timeless music is excellent songs...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-10-23
★★★★★
After the mournful preamble of opener 'Overflows' the tenth studio album by Superchunk truly roars into life on second track 'Me & You & Jackie Mittoo' with the emphatically negative war cry "I hate music, what is it worth?" accompanied by their trademark bouncy chords of punky power pop.
And although the album title I Hate Music also suggests that this is the sentiment that pervades a band twenty years on from their post grunge peak, in their own words "they've got nothing else so here it...
- thequietus.com
2013-09-12
★★★★★
Maybe we were just fooling ourselves, but even though they came together before the end of the Cold War, Superchunk had thus far managed to avoid seeming like they're actually, you know, getting old. Maybe it's the fact that their surging "whoa-oh-oh" choruses and buzzsaw guitars still sound just as electrifying as they did during the Clinton years, or maybe it's that onstage the band still bounces around like a bunch of slap-happy twenty-somethings, but for whatever reason it seemed like...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-07
★★★★★
This Is the Sound of a Rock 'N' Roll Eulogy
Maybe we were just fooling ourselves, but even though they came together before the end of the Cold War, Superchunk had thus far managed to avoid seeming like they're actually, you know, getting old. Maybe it's the fact that their surging "whoa-oh-oh" choruses and buzzsaw guitars still sound just as electrifying as they did during the Clinton years, or maybe it's that onstage the band still bounces around like a bunch of...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-07
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