★★★★★
Say what you want about Toad the Wet Sprocket, they certainly have support. The Santa Barbara band set a $50,000 goal on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter in order to record their sixth album New Constellation. That goal was met in less than 24 hours. Donations continued to roll in, giving the band an extra $200,000 cushion. That's not bad for a band that hasn't made an album together since 1997...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-16
★★★★★
Tweet The Stars Aligned "Now what's that thing I can't remember?" Glen Phillips sings in the first line of the first song of Toad the Wet Sprocket's first album of new music in sixteen years. Perhaps that thing he can't remember, fortunately, is the rifts that terminated the relationship between him and the other three members of one of the most successful alt-rock bands of the '90s...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-10-16
★★★★★
Toad The Wet Sprocket sprung from Santa Monica, California, in 1990 with the release of its label debut, Pale. The record lives up to its name, exhibiting a shadowy, muted feel that unites a modest collection of guitar-textured pop songs. The overall tone of Pale is enticing. It doesn't elicit undue comparisons to other bands, and it establishes Toad as a talent. But the record keeps such a gloomy mood that it ends up only appealing to a small segment of the listening public...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Toad The Wet Sprocket was a casualty of the music industry. A talented band stuck with the label of mediocrity, Toad produced a steady output of mature albums truly above '90s radio rock standards. But despite a couple hit singles and a small but devoted audience, the band never quite took its sound to that extra level that would have distinguish it from the decade's ocean of "alternative rock...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
This is the first taste of Toad The Wet Sprocket's brand of California-flavored thinking man's pop. Bread And Circus is a collection of songs Toad had worked up over two years of playing the Santa Monica club circuit. The album doesn't have the cohesive flow the band would find with later releases like Pale and Fear, but their songs were good from the get-go...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
Dulcinea was DonQuixote's hallucinatory notion of the perfect woman, stunning andgood, whom Cervantes actually described as a "stout-built sturdywench." By its own admission, Santa Barbara's Toad the Wet Sprocketstrives toward unattainable musical perfection, and this follow-upto 1991's Fear (which begat the hit "All I Want") is the result. It'sfortunate these R.E.M...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
A promising rock band that have been buildingits audience without the help of Top 40 radio have a worthwhilenew album out. A religious intensityemanates from the flowing, gorgeous songs profferred by Toad the WetSprocket. (The moniker comes from a Monty Python skit.) The SouthernCalifornia pantheists celebrate butterflies and haunted houses on theband's third album, fear, but things aren't all nice; Thegroup also takes on gang rape and false gods who "hold you by yourfear." B
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Toad the Wet Sprocker may be the mostnondescript success story in indie rock. Mellow jangling,occasional strings, and nasal mumbling add up to tunes so vagueyou're liable to forget them before the CD's finished. EvenCoil's strongest tracks ("Desire," "Amnesia") sound likebar-band imitations of the kind of bombast dished out by fellowalt-rockers Live. C-
- ew.com
2009-06-04
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