★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3FIDLARFIDLARWichita Recordings2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album There's no shortage of gleefully dumb, party-hard garage-rock...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Culver City. Santa Monica. The 101. LA County. The liquor store. The alley. Your dealer's car. Beer, speed, blow, weed. FIDLAR are your friendly neighborhood loser garage-rock heroes, and they want to take you along for the ride. Preorder this record and get a band-branded skate deck; if they could, they'd probably toss in an eighth...
- www.prefixmag.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
FIDLAR (meaning Fuck It Dog, Life's A Risk) are just what a young garage punk band should be. Few friends making some tunes but mostly looking to get drunk and party. They have a great ethos behind the band that basically is just a big middle finger to everyday society and they are just going to do what they want. It's refreshing to see such abandonment of convention and reestablishing a punk ethic that to be honest, is long gone in most of the new bands on the scene today...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-03-07
★★★★★
FIDLAR like to party. FIDLAR like to do drugs, drink too much, drive under the influence, skateboard, jerk-off, pass out and do it again. FIDLAR are not a band with a lot of nuance, but that single-minded focus on doing dumb ass shit is also their strongest weapon.
The Los Angeles four-piece traffic almost exclusively in surf-punk and garage-rock, making quick anthems about the joys of doing self-inflicted bodily harm without feeling bad about it...
- www.punknews.org
2013-02-18
★★★★★
Fidlar'Fidlar' (Wichita) 4.5Recommended Track 'Whore' Not to do ourselves out of a job, but the best way to review LA quartet Fidlar wouldn't be with words, but with a before an after photo of the most hedonistic, fucked up house party and the resulting, K.O-ed carnage. Fidlar understand that life is fundamentally shit and the way around it is to just do whatever the hell you like. Drink, smoke, fuck, fight, party. Listen to balls-to-the-wall garage punk like this. Deal with the fall-out later...
- www.the-fly.co.uk
2013-02-15
★★★★★
"I'm an occasional drinker," Raymond Chandler once wrote. "The kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard." It's doubtful that Chandler would get along with the guys from FIDLAR--he actually was a very sad person--but they'd certainly have a lot to talk about, writing wise. Mainly that both of their protagonists often drink a seemingly impossible amount of alcohol, and hang around Los Angeles, so convinced of their loserdom that they're actually cool...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-02-07
★★★★★
FIDLAR
FIDLAR
[Mom & Pop; 2013]
By Rob Hakimian ; February 7, 2013
Purchase at: Insound (Vinyl) | Amazon (MP3 & CD) | iTunes | MOG
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LA punks FIDLAR opened up their debut DIYDUI EP with the song "Wake, Bake, Skate," which set the tone for the collection of songs and the band's personality: guys who like to have fun, do a few drugs, and just mess around...
- beatsperminute.com
2013-02-07
★★★★★
There's not much to really like about this debut from snot-nosed LA punks Fidlar. They're obviously manouevring to take the party hard crown from Andrew WK with tracks like 'Cheap Beer' and 'Cocaine' but the drug-fuelled enthusiasm doesn't fail to hide the fact that the occasional thrills are of the fleeting variety. The former lifts a Cramps riff to boisterous effect and 'Wake Bake Skate' has an undeniable energy but after that the returns are minimal...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-02-04
★★★★★
"I drink cheap beer, so what, fuck you," yells frontman Zac Carper on the chorus of Cheap Bear, the opening song from Fidlar's debut album. It's a suitable opener from the LA punk band, setting up the alcohol and drug-fueled scene where they spend the whole of their eponymous album. With a name that is apparently an acronym for 'Fuck It Dog, Life's A Risk' - a catchphrase gleaned from skateboarders in California - it's hardly surprising that the angsty four-piece are unashamedly brash...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-02-04
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