★★★★★
Release Date: November 19, 2013 I'm not sure if my music-journalist instincts have ever been more confused than the first time I listened to No Country for Old Musicians. There were songs I loved, songs I couldn't stand, songs that made me laugh out loud on my own and songs that made me want to give myself a good ol' fashioned face-palm...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-12-31
★★★★★
Sound: The sound is basicaly the same as their past albums. They still have that weird kind of sound effect noise to their songs. It seems like they have to much of this though. I think they use it too much and should have focused on the guitar a little more. // 5 Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics are ok in the fact that, like all punk bands, they talk about a girl. They could have used some different kind of format for some of their songs but it still sounds ok overall...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
While this is diet heavy metal for stupid people, Reggie and The Full Effect do seem to have something, though I'm pretty sure it's just a great band photo of them drunk in Santa suits. Basically, Reggie's full effect is probably too heavy for the masses, too light for the bangers and just sucky enough for the people in the middle to hate. The album opener What the Hell Is Contempt...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
I expected another dose of genius, and what I got was a little something lower on the food chain. Reggie and the Full Effect's debut effort, Greatest Hits '84-'87, was and still is wonderful, perfectly combining comedy and nerded-out indie rock. The second effort, Promotional Copy, was almost as wildly entertaining. But now, with Under the Tray, it feels as though the same jokes are being rehashed again and again, and some things are getting pretty tiresome while others get fresher and better...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Do not be fooled by the cover of this CD (as I was). If you were to walk into your local indie record shop (those delicious little morsels of DIY goodness that they are), you could actually buy Reggie and the Full Effect's Promotional Copy. This side project of Matt Pryor and James Dewees (Get Up Kids) sets up a story of the misunderstood "Reggie," an eighties pop star. In fact, the album's hilarious opening track depicts Reggie's murder a la A.C. Lerok...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
In his various roles as underground hardcore legend (Coalesce), emo icon (the Get Up Kids), sideman to the stars (My Chemical Romance, New Found Glory) or as ringleader of Reggie And The Full Effect, it's all good for James Dewees, even when it's crap. Consider Last Stop: Crappy Town, a sonic diary detailing Dewees' travails between marriages, touring gigs, rounds of drinks, lines of Bolivian marching powder and personal redemption...
- www.altpress.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
With unabashedly contagious melodies, Reggie and the Full Effect's reissue of their ironically titled debut, Greatest Hits '84-'87 contains the usual suspects -- harebrained love songs spewing forth over-the-top '80s-style synthesizers, hyperactive drum-machine beats, delightfully boyish crooning...
- www.prefixmag.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Yesterday, I read a letter from an editorThat tells me what he thinks, how all this music is boring, Concentrating on how much this really stinks.It's not my fault if you're snoring. Go ask your mother cuz she knows what you need. Let your heart open cuz it needs time to bleed. So goes the third verse in the first song, "Your Bleedin' Heart," on Under the Tray ..., the third release from Get Up Kids keyboardist James DeWees's solo project, Reggie & The Full Effect...
- www.prefixmag.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Get Up Kids' keyboardist, multi-instrumentalist and satirist James DeWees assumes the name of Reggie and opens Under with a cheeky, confident lyrical accusation: "Tell me, what were you thinking?/Spending all your time looking for something new/You'd better swim 'cause you're sinking." Reggie blesses and curses everything we love to hate about the current state of derivative pop, and the result is as infectious as it is laughable...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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