★★★★★
The chances of a new Redd Kross LP ever materialising seemed to have faded to black since the death of guitarist Eddie Kurdziel in 1999. Yet, as if from nowhere, they're back, regrouping with the line-up responsible for 1987's psych-soaked Neurotica and touting a new album capable of standing alongside the very best in their canon...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
While the rest of punk rock was busy trying to shake and forget its childhood, Redd Kross was fully embracing theirs, but not simply because they were children. Just put on Researching the Blues, the band's first album in 15 years, and you'll still hear their juvenile sense of romanticism and fascination with American pop culture, especially in songs like "Dracula's Daughter" and "Meet Frankenstein," which signal the end of satin-shirt balladry and the return of Black Cat rock and roll.
- filtermagazine.com
2012-08-16
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Set to Repeat: Rainbow Rock Sugar Power pop veterans Redd Kross are back from a 15-year hiatus, and wow, the wait was worth it. Researching the Blues, their seventh studio release, is a dandelion-light effusion of sudsy glam and coy, uplifting rock...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-08-10
★★★★★
Researching The Blues is the first Redd Kross record in 15 years, but it picks up right where the band left off. This is an achievement in itself, as most members have been involved in other projects during that time, most notably Steven McDonald's involvement with Beck's Sea Changes and the hardcore punk supergroup OFF! But through these 10 tracks of fun, straightforward power pop, you would never know that Redd Kross were interested in such a diverse range of music...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-08-10
★★★★★
It's difficult to imagine that Redd Kross once boasted a sound so hard-charging that punkers were crestfallen when the band traded it in for the poppier style that made up 1987's Neurotica, an LP time has let slip through cracks filled by Sonic Youth and the Pixies...
- thephoenix.com
2012-08-09
★★★★★
This Hawthorne, CA band's first album in 15 years is a surprisingly strong set of punkish power pop with sharply crafted songs combining loud, crunchy guitars, energetic rhythms, exuberant harmonies and catchy pop melodies.
- kexp.org
2012-08-06
★★★★★
The brothers McDonald, Jeff and Steve, were the wunderkinds of the Southern California punk scene of the late 1970s and early '80s. The band's 1982 debut full-length, Born Innocent, was a caffeinated spasm of adolescent angst and shlock culture, and while rudimentary, the album was both an impressive statement by a band still firmly in its teens and a harbinger of their own brand of power pop still to come...
- dustedmagazine.com
2012-08-06
★★★★★
Merge Records have spent the past year or so celebrating some bigger names in indie rock history, reissuing the entire catalogs from both Archers of Loaf and Sugar, not to mention readying a new album from Sugar (and former Hüsker Dü) frontman Bob Mould due out later this year. Exciting as those releases are, Merge has also quietly been championing the more unsung heroes of rock music over the past few years...
- www.prefixmag.com
2012-08-06
★★★★★
One of the most exciting things about being addicted to music is the joy of discovery. It's a ritual that we put ourselves through again and again: scouring the bargain bin for that lost treasure, countless magazines piling up in our rooms, sucked of their suggestive power, and lately, CD-Rs filled with obscurities from a friend's computer...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
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