★★★★★
If you simply took "The Great Abyss" in isolation, you might think that the Disco Biscuits have finally executed an album that captures the sound of the quartet from Philadelphia in all of their sonic glory. "Abyss," the opening track from their sixth studio album Otherwise Law Abiding Citizens, feels like the distillation of the essence of all that is good about the Disco Biscuits, everything they have been building towards since their inception in 1995...
- www.jambands.com
2011-09-05
★★★★★
The Disco Biscuits' new album Otherwise Law Abiding Citizens took only two weeks to record. Their previous record, Planet Anthem, took nearly four years. Incredibly, within such a short span of time, the band has catalyzed a blistering piece of work that offers the most accurate studio representation of their legendary live sound...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2011-08-15
★★★★★
Culled from some of drummer Sam Altman's last performances before leaving the group, The Wind at Four to Fly seems like an identity statement more than anything else: This is who the Disco Biscuits are. Rather than pursue a theme for the album, they chose to do what they do best — run their "classics," stretch out, and experiment like hell. The results are mixed. As electronica, The Wind at Four to Fly does everything one would expect...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Summary: As Shrek would say, The Disco Biscuits are like an onion, they have layers. They may be a little stinky at some points, but Planet Anthem is a surprising success if only for the fact that it's better than your first judgements. 6 of 6 thought this review was well written A Philly jam-band with an energetic live show, The Disco Biscuits transcend the live setting surprisingly well on Planet Anthem...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2010-05-20
★★★★★
The Disco Biscuits are an electronic jazz-fusion band from Philly. What is electronic jazz-fusion? It's a complex, layered sound with guitars, keyboards, drums and all the other accompaniments of a modern rock band. For all I know they have groupies, but there's little mention of that on the disc or the website. Like much electronica, there's an emphasis on long, extended songs that flow into each other with no pause and a de-emphasis of vocals...
- www.ink19.com
2009-07-20
★★★★★
"Vassillios", the first track on the Disco Biscuits' debut album,
Uncivilized Area, serves as a fine example of their music a Zappa-esque fusion of rock, jazz and a whole bunch of other stuff (and it's very strange!). The Disco Biscuits themselves call their sound "trance-fusion". Insofar as their music clearly fuses a variety of styles
and also possesses the extended, "trancy", jam mentality of other bands on
the Hydrophonics label, I'd agree...
- www.splendidezine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The Disco Biscuits are capable of churning out straightforward, almost earnest rock -- "Jigsaw Earth" has a buoyancy reminiscent of Workingman's Dead, while the syncopated "Triumph" melds brawny backbeats with clubby analog synths. But they're much more interesting when they take left turns. Among the trippy excursions here are a wonky, jazzlike interval exercise titled "Floodlights" and a whiplashing live-electronica fantasia, "Float Like a Butterfly."...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
No other band does fist-pumping, high-NRG grooves better than the Disco Biscuits. On their third studio album, the Biscuits distill their live attack to come off like an urgent street-corner collaboration between Pink Floyd and the Beastie Boys. Their melodies can skip lightly or tumble like boulders, but their long, slow build-ups pay off with celebratory rock-rave orgasms. "Hope" and "Triumph" transform anxiety into rhythmic release, while the beat-based "Floodlights" revels in paranoia...
- www.blender.com
2009-03-20