★★★★★
Before the Internet was widely available, anyone who purchased punk rock albums in the 1990's remembers the little black and white paper catalog inserts that would be crammed inside jewel cases in order to alert you of an upcoming release or to catch up on whatever record label's back catalog. If you ever bought a release by Face To Face or pretty much any band associated with Vagrant Records, the little piece of paper would prominently feature the Econo Live 10" EP by Face To Face as a must...
- www.punknews.org
2014-09-02
★★★★★
"Three Chords And A Half Truth" is Face To Face's 9th studio full length album, released in April of 2013 by Rise Records. The band comes back with a unique and dynamic sound with their second post-reunion album. A little off from a classic So-Cal pop punk style, Face To Face introduced a new step in direction to their music with more of a classic rock influence to their original music...
- bigsmilemagazine.com
2014-02-02
★★★★★
The first time Face to Face really fucked with their formula was with 1999's Ignorance is Bliss, an alternative-minded record that buried the band's pop punk roots in layers of guitar noise (it's basically their Dear You). It also alienated a fan base that hated change (kind of like...Dear You). That record aside, the band have stuck to a pretty solid template: rapid fire drums, absurdly great basslines, huge choruses...
- www.punknews.org
2013-05-01
★★★★★
Last year saw the triumphant return of '90s punk stalwarts Face to Face. Reunion record Laugh Now...Laugh Later found the band plugging right back into where it left off, thankfully. Now, the band is keeping those good vibes going with the All For Nothing EP, which is really just a single with two covers. Still, more Face to Face is always a good thing. "All For Nothing" was somewhat of an odd track on Laugh Now...
- www.punknews.org
2012-05-07
★★★★★
After dozens of lineup changes, a four year hiatus and nine years since their 2002 release How To Ruin Everything, Face To Face have returned with their seventh album, Laugh Now, Laugh Later. Filled with energetic and simple punk rock anthems, this album has everything that made Face To Face one of the many influential pop-punk acts from the 90's, along with other California kings Green Day, The Offspring, Blink-182 and NOFX...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2011-07-25
★★★★★
When it comes to grandfathers of the genre, there's nary a more grandfatherly figure in pop punk than Face To Face. Formed in 1991, the California-based four-piece reunited to release Laugh Now, Laugh Later, their first record since 2002's How To Ruin Everything. Laugh Now, Laugh Later is the group's seventh studio album and their first for People Like You Records. Face To Face's first album in almost a decade doesn't have the feel of a "reunion record" at all...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-06-27
★★★★★
It's interesting to look back and think about the bands that influenced your musical tastes. I grew up on a steady diet of everything from Guns N' Roses to Run DMC to Black Flag. Eventually I started to lean towards the "grunge" movement of the early '90s, and from the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and plethora of others, expanded to punk rock...
- www.punknews.org
2011-05-30
★★★★★
Putting 1999's Ignorance Is Bliss aside, Face to Face still sounds the way they always have. As their first record since rebounding from a break-up in the early '00s, Laugh Now, Laugh Later shows the Californian skate-punk band doggedly sticking to the palette they cultivated decades ago...
- thephoenix.com
2011-05-30
★★★★★
SoCal punk band Face To Face broke up in 2004, but for some fans, the band essentially ended with 1999's Ignorance Is Bliss, a disastrous turn away from signature melodic punk toward mid-tempo, Foo Fighters-esque rock. Face To Face returned to form on two subsequent full-lengths (and an inessential covers album), though it never seemed to recover fully. Yet four years after breaking up, the band reunited, initially without plans to record new material...
- www.avclub.com
2011-05-17
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