★★★★★
It is difficult not to see Oblivion Hunter , and indeed much of Lightning Bolt's recorded output, as an advertisement for their live performances. The hyperkinetic, feral intensity of these tracks inevitably causes the listener to daydream about watching this stuff performed live in some dank basement, headbanging frantically while these two talented young men pound away at their instruments. I am sorry to report that I have yet to experience that particular pleasure...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-10-11
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare 'Lightning' in a Mottle Reviewing noise rock duo Lightning Bolt's latest requires a nuanced kind of scrutiny. After all, when most all tracks in the band's canon are loosely integrated smatterings of abstract noise, it all comes down to whether the most recent batch of noise is as good as the last batch. In Oblivion Hunter, directly I can tell you no...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-10-01
★★★★★
Odds are better than good that if you've clicked on this link, you already know whether or not you want this record. Lightning Bolt is not the sort of band likely to surprise their listeners with a sudden digression into acoustic balladry or chirpy synth-pop...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
The two Brians that make up Lightning Bolt may have been simultaneously constructing then deconstructing slabs of abstract noise for the best part of a decade-and-a-half now, but on 'Earthly Delights', their fifth full-length studio album, their panache for creating mesmerising sonic ambivalence shows no sign of drying up just yet...
- www.gigwise.com
2011-01-18
★★★★★
There's a toothgrinding intensity to the opening track on Earthly Delights, a dainty little number by the name of 'Sound Guardians'. It's a thudding, controlled explosion of iron-edged melody and percussion that seems to increase in volume and ferocity through the course of its four minutes and 52 seconds such is the war-like violence of its assault; it's like, as per Lightning Bolt's usual modus operandi, they're trying to psych us all out by casting down hellfire and thunder into our ears...
- thequietus.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
I'm not sure why people are so worried about the Hadron Collider, especially since Lightning Bolt have been tearing black holes in the fabric of Providence on a regular basis for the past 15 years...
- thephoenix.com
2010-08-24
★★★★★
Providence, Rhode Island's Lightning Bolt do a lot with a little. Formed in 1994 by bassist Brian Gibson and drummer Brian Chippendale, two graduates from the creative, liberal-minded Rhode Island School of Design, the duo spent much of their early existence playing strictly live and improvisatory, touring hard and setting up on the floor in whatever warehouse or dive bar they were booked to play to dissolve the space between band and audience...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-08-22
★★★★★
This is probably the most accessible of Lightning Bolt's three albums, though in relative terms it makes The White Stripes seem like Westlife. Brian Gibson's bass manages to cover all the necessary functions of free-rock-metal guitar—imagine a cross between the Boredoms and Slayer—while Brian Chippendale's drums are restless but always manage to nail the rhythm when required...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
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