★★★★★
Though Rubblebucket toured extensively behind two full-length albums as well as two EPs, their recent label-backed release Save Charlie almost feels like the start of a new chapter for the seven-piece funk/pop outfit. The Brooklyn-based band eased up on touring this past year, enabling singer Kalmia Traver and trumpeter Alex Toth to write new music. (Traver also successfully beat cancer.) The result is a well-rounded and catchy EP that has fine-tuned Rubblebucket's sound...
- www.jambands.com
2013-12-13
★★★★★
Though Rubblebucket toured extensively behind two full-length albums as well as two EPs, their recent label-backed release Save Charlie almost feels like the start of a new chapter for the seven-piece funk/pop outfit. The Brooklyn-based band eased up on touring this past year, enabling singer Kalmia Traver and trumpeter Alex Toth to write new music. (Traver also successfully beat cancer.) The result is a well-rounded and catchy EP that has fine-tuned Rubblebucket's sound...
- www.relix.com
2013-11-21
★★★★★
?????????? Rubblebucket, a fast rising seven piece from Brooklyn (by way of Vermont/Massachusetts), manage to combine the best of 80's mainstream pop (think Madonna, Hall & Oates) with indie rock creativity/weirdness producing engaging music that is hard to define but easy to enjoy. This teaser EP Save Charlie contains three new songs, three remixes and a cover. While not overloaded with new material the songs here are joyous...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-10-04
★★★★★
Rubblebucket's self-titled debut was snubbed. It had little buzz or recognition and remained an undeserving eternal sleeper lost in the ashes of 2009. In what might be considered the ultimate comeback, the bouncy, pop perfection of these Brooklynites' sophomore effort, Omega La La, stockpiles endlessly joyful compositions coined into their own genre on the blogosphere: Yes Wave. That means musicians with serious musical prowess creating shamelessly catchy music...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2012-03-15
★★★★★
Although bands often sacrifice musical quality for the sake of maintaining a weirder image, Rubblebucket keep buzzing forward, as impressive as they are idiosyncratic. This third album delivers sonic spanks and makes you call them Daddy -- or Mommy, as lead woman saxist-vocalist Kalmia Traver reminds us in first single "Came Out of a Lady...
- thephoenix.com
2011-09-05
★★★★★
Sin Duda On its third full length, Rubblebucket's energetic brand of trance-inducing, polyrhythmic dance-rock is honed into a heavenly mosaic of shining tracks. Omega La La was mostly recorded at Plaintain/DFA studios in New York City and many of its 11 mostly road-tested songs...
- www.relix.com
2011-08-22
★★★★★
Wherefore art thou, art rock? Art school musicians poured out of the UK in the pre-punk days -- self conscious and self referential, they skated closer to Monty Python than John Bonham and held just close enough to traditional western composition to sell, but snuck into the progressive rock closet when it thought no one was looking...
- www.ink19.com
2011-08-15
★★★★★
There may be nothing I hate more in the music industry than bloggy genre names--the kind that pop up in critical jargon and then fade away in the trailing breeze of some indie band's sophomore slump, never to be heard from again. That's probably the ultimate fate of "yes wave," a recent post-post-modern genre label purportedly meant to describe bands with actual instrumental dexterity who revel in upbeat structures and positive vibes. I guess it also helps if band members have college degrees.....
- www.pastemagazine.com
2011-06-13
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