★★★★★
Just when we were semi-rejoicing about the return of genuine rock'n'roll, and the go-ahead to wear tight jeans and sport small buttons emblazoned with obscure band names without people laughing at us, along comes RFTC again to punch us in the stomach. What I like most about this San Diego six-piece (aside from their dark humour - Live From Camp X-Ray is not live, nor was it recorded at the Cuban gulag where the U.S...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Rocket from the Crypt's Circa: Now! was the band's sophomore album, originally released by Cargo/Headhunter Records in 1993. You'll recall that, in the early 90s, major labels seeking to emulate the runaway success of Nirvana were signing every promising indie band they could get their hands on, and Rocket from the Crypt's distinctive blend of meat-and-potatoes rock, raging punk, tattooed and pomaded greaser style, and kitschy Americana must have fit the bill...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
This isn't a live album, and it wasn't recorded anywhere near Camp X-Ray, the United States' detention center in Cuba. Still, the title of Rocket From the Crypt's seventh album makes some sense. It's not so much an album as it is a vigorous, full-frontal assault of muscular guitar riffs, combative horn blasts and snarling political diatribes hearkening back to when punk rock was about something besides the girl who ignores you in homeroom...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
With hindsight, the Rocket's choreographed, anthemic garage punk peaked six years too early. Had they arrived in 2002, slicked-back and uniformed, chances are they would've stolen The Hives'thunder. Rock'n'roll may have caught up in the interim, but 1992's Circa: Now! remains ferociously potent. An inventive mix of grinding riffs, rabble-rousing choruses and Stax horn charts, it still sounds tremendous—like Dexys Midnight Runners schooled in US hardcore, loosely...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
Sound: There were two major clues that gave me an impression of what Rocket From The Crypt may sound like. The first was the outstanding "I'm Not Invisible" featuring on an Atticus compilation I'd borrowed from a friend. Being the kind of label you'd associate with emo/punk/hardcore, I could guess what to expect before even hearing a song. "I'm Not Invisible" was enough to warrant further listening, so I picked up this album...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
I have a theory that every band has a lifespan, and that overreaching that span only means a kind of tiredness and rehashing of an old sound in a modern time. In my opinion, at least, it's been seen in all the greats, from U2 to REM to The Rolling Stones and so on. Their later albums, recorded a decade or more after their heyday, sound like a new approach to their old sound but never approaches a modern feel.
That being said, my theory has some flaws...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
I have a theory that every band has a lifespan, and that overreaching that span only means a kind of tiredness and rehashing of an old sound in a modern time. In my opinion, at least, it's been seen in all the greats, from U2 to REM to The Rolling Stones and so on. Their later albums, recorded a decade or more after their heyday, sound like a new approach to their old sound but never approaches a modern feel.
That being said, my theory has some flaws...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
With hindsight, the Rocket's choreographed, anthemic garage punk peaked six years too early. Had they arrived in 2002, slicked-back and uniformed, chances are they would've stolen The Hives'thunder. Rock'n'roll may have caught up in the interim, but 1992's Circa: Now! remains ferociously potent. An inventive mix of grinding riffs, rabble-rousing choruses and Stax horn charts, it still sounds tremendous—like Dexys Midnight Runners schooled in US hardcore, loosely...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Of course, they know. They know you've not been attending their church as regularly, how their blazing eyes and blazing shirts have become a guilty memory of a different time and how your attention has been seized by noisy young pretenders. But Rocket From The Crypt do not come in vengeance, nor in desperate humility passing around the collection plate to raise funds for their broken hearts...
- nme.com
2009-06-08
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