★★★★★
It's sadly appropriate that the title for this two-disc retrospective comes from a B-side. The sadness comes from a case of the woulda-coulda-shouldas, wherein this group, in that "other world" music writers and fans like to talk about, would be the top of the pops from Timbuktu to Kalamazoo. Instead, Swervedriver was beset by the sorts of calamities and mishaps that turn a would-be world-beater into an asterisk...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
Sound: Back when I was young I considered myself pretty underground, or as the kids say these days, 'street'. I would attempt to impress babes by throwing around little indicators of my cred. They would of course come running into my arms after said cred was revealed. Many swooned over me. One of my favourite words was shoegaze, which I would invariably mumble with a sniff and jolting nod of the head - a touch I was always prudent to add because it made me seem so much more aloof...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-12-26
★★★★★
Bafflingly lumped in with early '90s "shoegaze" when their guitar-blasted, stonerish take on Americana was far more red-blooded, this Oxford quartet mixed post-Sonic Youth tuff-gnarl with metal-Morricone menace, pachydermal Crazy Horse grooves and acres of billowing low-end...
- www.mojo4music.com
2009-08-29
★★★★★
Bafflingly lumped in with early '90s "shoegaze" when their guitar-blasted, stonerish take on Americana was far more red-blooded, this Oxford quartet mixed post-Sonic Youth tuff-gnarl with metal-Morricone menace, pachydermal Crazy Horse grooves and acres of billowing low-end...
- www.mojo4music.com
2009-08-29
★★★★★
Few bands would have made it through the insulting treatment Swervedriver endured while attempting to release its long-awaited fourth LP 99th Dream. Heralded since its Raise debut for its ability to max-out the sonic possibilities of the guitar, the band waltzed out of the shoegazing era with another brilliantly hard-hitting record (Mezcal Head) before tripping across reams of record industry red-tape...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Applying thick layers of psychedelic bliss to a powerful rock foundation, British quartet Swervedriver transcended initial comparisons to shoegazer bands such as Lush and Ride on its 1993 masterpiece Mezcal Head, one of the best rock albums released in the '90s.
Informed as much by My Bloody Valentine as it is The Stooges, Mezcal Head is an 11-track, 61-minute juggernaut, mind-altering and deeply satisfying from start to finish...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Applying thick layers of psychedelic bliss to a powerful rock foundation, British quartet Swervedriver transcended initial comparisons to shoegazer bands such as Lush and Ride on its 1993 masterpiece Mezcal Head, one of the best rock albums released in the '90s.
Informed as much by My Bloody Valentine as it is The Stooges, Mezcal Head is an 11-track, 61-minute juggernaut, mind-altering and deeply satisfying from start to finish...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Few bands would have made it through the insulting treatment Swervedriver endured while attempting to release its long-awaited fourth LP 99th Dream. Heralded since its Raise debut for its ability to max-out the sonic possibilities of the guitar, the band waltzed out of the shoegazing era with another brilliantly hard-hitting record (Mezcal Head) before tripping across reams of record industry red-tape...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
About 10 to 15 years ago, Swervedriver was one of the seminal bands in the "shoegaze" scene alongside bands that really weren't as similar in musical texture as most rock historians would lead us to believe. Bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Slowdive, Lush, Pale Saints, and Swervedriver were all lumped together by a term that was loosely defined by the fact that said bands supposedly had so many effects pedals that their members stared at their shoes for the entirety of live performances...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
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