★★★★★
This excellent reissue combines the five rare EPs produced from 1992-94 by one of the more innovative British bands of the early '90s. Disco Inferno's digital sampling of found sound was rare for a rock band back then - their music regularly combined a variety of ambient samples with hypnotic rhythms, circular guitar lines, dreamy melodies and devastatingly bleak lyrics for an adventurous trance-rock sound that was like nothing else at the time.
- kexp.org
2011-11-21
★★★★★
Disco Inferno - "The Last Dance" I first heard Disco Inferno in 1993, when Festival Records (the Australian licensers of Rough Trade Records) released their "From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sky" single. A foolhardy move, given the nature of the record itself - if the English listening public couldn't get to grips with its paradigm-splitting combination of post-punk songwriting and furiously futuristic sampler technique, Australia didn't stand a chance in hell...
- dustedmagazine.com
2011-11-17
★★★★★
In 1994, the United Kingdom had already started to become enamored with the trend that would define the '90s in Britain: Britpop. Oasis and Blur led the charge that would culminate in 1995 with "The Battle of Britpop" with singles "Roll with It" and "Country House". At the same time, in the mid-'90s, Disco Inferno, led by reclusive frontman Ian Crause, created two proper albums and the five singles and EPs that would be included on the bootleg The Five EPs...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-11-10
★★★★★
People talk a lot about how it's easier to be an "experimental" band in the 21st-century. Like most rhetoric about the way the web changed music, that's not quite so true for everyone all the time...
- pitchfork.com
2011-09-22
★★★★★
Pop history is replete with forgotten revolutionaries, those ahead-of-their-time outcasts who were greeted with confusion and indifference, only receiving their dues once the world had caught up years later. And so it is with early Nineties sampling pioneers Disco Inferno, whose radical, intelligent, sensitive rewiring of the standard guitar/bass/drums aesthetic was so far out of step of Britpop's nationalistic bombast that buying a DI record must have felt tantamount to treason...
- drownedinsound.com
2011-09-12
★★★★★
Along with AR Kane's 69 and I, the jewels in the crown of One Little Indian's Crossing the Pond reissue campaign are the final two albums from Disco Inferno, D.I. Go Pop and Technicolour. Ignored upon their release (presumably due to that awful bandname), the best of Disco Inferno's early 1990s work has been increasingly championed over the years and seems set to deservedly make the paperback edition of rock's history books...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-07
★★★★★
If you read British music magazines around 1994, there was a good chance you probably came across a small article or two about a young band called Disco Inferno. You'd read quotes about how their album was unlike anything anybody had done before, how utterly incredible it was, but if you lived in North America, far away from a good record store, the only thing you would know about Disco Inferno's album D.I. Go Pop would be its distinctive cover art...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Along with AR Kane's 69 and I, the jewels in the crown of One Little Indian's Crossing
the Pond reissue campaign are the final two albums from Disco Inferno, D.I. Go Pop and
Technicolour. Ignored upon their release (presumably due to that awful bandname), the best of
Disco Inferno's early 1990s work has been increasingly championed over the years and seems set to
deservedly make the paperback edition of rock's history books...
- www.pitchforkmedia.com
2009-03-20
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