★★★★★
Listen up Strokes/Vines/Hives:garage stomp has never been better than this. Period. Just back from the cleaners, The Sonics' freshly remastered sides for Etiquette (1964/65) are just as punishing 40 years on. Frontman Gerry Roslie still sounds seconds from a coronary on classics "Witch", "Psycho" and "Strychnine", and guitarist Larry Parypa delivers paint-stripping riffs with all the subtlety of a stud bull crashing the Royal Doulton factory. Savage, brutal and fearless...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
In 1969, Palance was filming in Nashville, and fell in with an emerging singer-songwriter: Kris Kristofferson. When Palance mentioned he'd toyed with making a country record himself, Kristofferson introduced him to local legend Buddy Killen, who'd started out playing bass with Hank Williams and hit the commercial motherlode recording Roger Miller...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Everyone would agree that the Sonics reached their peak on their 1964-65 recordings for Etiquette. This 29-track compilation has everything they recorded for the label, extended not just to everything from their singles and two albums, but also with an alternate take of "The Witch" and live recordings of "Psycho" and "The Witch." Consequently, it's the best Sonics release on the market, though you should be warned: it's not wall-to-wall greatness...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
The Sonics' second album is every bit as explosive and influential as their debut outing, loaded with gritty Northwest rock & roll...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
The Sonics that Wailers bassist Buck Ormsby took into a small studio and unleashed on the world show a live band at the peak of its power, ready to mow down the competition without even blinking twice. Their debut long-player (originally issued on the Etiquette imprint) is reprised here with new liner notes by Norton prexy Miriam Linna in the original mono...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
When the topic of the great-grandfathers of punk arises, garage-rockers all give nods to The Sonics. If you're already aware of The Sonics, this reissue of their classic debut album provides a readily available way to get that Sonics' fix that's been creeping around in the back of your head for some time...
- www.splendidezine.com
2008-07-30
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