★★★★★
Genre: Rock Year: 2004 Country: USA Official Site: Mando Diao Details: Tracks & Audio Label: Mute Records The Strokes. The Hives. The Kinks. The Rolling Stones. You know, that ol-time rock 'n' roll. My brother took me aside one day and told me I just had to listen to the song backing a video of skateboarding mishaps. It sounded like some 1960s English rock band, and he wanted to know who it was. I couldn't tell him, but it grooved and kicked with lots of fuzz and attitude...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
A lot has changed since Mando Diao came bursting on the scene in 2003 with Bring 'Em In. Their contemporaries and competitors have either faded away (the Vines), gone into hibernation (the Strokes), or are hard at work on their next album (the Hives). Even the industry has changed, with the plethora of sneering garage bands replaced with exuberantly theatrical emo (My Chemical Romance) or the next generation of pop punk (Fall Out Boy)...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Okay, so Mando Diao are yet another Swedish rock band. But before you dismiss them as just another Hives/Hellacopters clone, give their new album a listen first...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Swedish group Mando Diao aren't quite as manic as the Hives, aren't quite as heady or retro as the Soundtrack of Our Lives, and aren't quite as poppy as Shout Out Louds. But they definitely have something going for them with a grab bag of garage rock and tight Brit-pop on the head-bobbing title track of this single. The band slows things down with "Popovic", which comes through with a decent chorus...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
For every over-hyped, over-rated indie shmindie band that gets spunked over by the baying media, there's always one band that somehow misses the target and never really get any of the attention they deserve. When Clash first encountered Mando Diao we wondered how long it'd be before their Libertines-infused-punk-meets-Beatles-soaked-melodies would win our nation's hearts. We're still waiting. Quite how this, the Swedes' third album, will fare is unknown...
- www.clashmusic.com
2010-10-12
★★★★★
To dig up Mando Diao's hot trouser bulge for the height of Beatles hysteria in the US on the venerable Mute label was quite a surprise. The band employs the marketable aspects of the burgeoning Swedish garage rock movement with high wire new-school Brit-pop sensibilities. The band careens all over the road, from treble-rich, high-octane, head-wagging slop pop to gritty, bare-knuckle rock and roll with all of the blues and noise overtones you could ever hope for...
- www.lostatsea.net
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Sound: Out of Sweden has come one of the most melodic and infectious straightforward rock bands heard in a long time. Mando Diao doesn't use any fancy guitar shredding or screaming to adorn their songs -- they rely on good old fashioned catchy songwriting that conjures a bit of the Rolling Stones, The Strokes, and Dirty Pretty Things. In the end, though, Mando Diao still manages to keep it's own identity on the new record Ode To Ochrasy...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Sound: Today we have all this high tech shit that ruins the real rock 'n' roll sound but Mando Diao sure has the real ROCK sound of the 50's and 60's. The starting track Sheepdog is enough to convince anyone that this band knows how to make rock 'n' roll. The guitar riffs remind me of Keith Richards's dirty Micawber twang and it's obvious that their music is influenced by Rolling Stones and the Beatles...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
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