★★★★★
Another in a long line of Mud records bands to call it quits, Sarge leave us with this 14 track scrapbook of a few new songs, a bunch of live songs, a couple of covers and miscellaneous debris. The only new material here, the first three tracks, could have probably represented better if released alone as an EP instead of alongside the live tracks...
- www.lostatsea.net
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Roughly pop and crisply punky, this is one of the rare good albums to land tunes first these days, indubitably fresh despite its verse-chorus-verse and guitar-bass-drums. Partly it's the voice of young Elizabeth Elmore--unassuming but never retiring, thoughtful but never moony...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
The indie circuit's no life for a girl who's been accepted at law school and wants the kind of relationships that are wrecked by the separations her lyrics dissect...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-06-06
★★★★★
Great hook-filled indie rock, tight and charming, with female harmonies... If you think indie rock is at a standstill, try this. For fans of Tiger Trap and Team Dresch.
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Bands break up all the time, in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reasons. I like when bands break up loudly: when they play farewell shows, release farewell CDs and let their fans know they're grateful. Distant is Sarge's farewell CD or, as lead vocalist/songwriter Elizabeth Elmore puts it in the liner notes, "sort of our own personal scrapbook." And it works nicely, both as one final shot of their music for fans and as an introduction for listeners who hadn't "discovered" Sarge yet...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-22
★★★★★
Bands break up all the time, in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reasons. I like when bands break up loudly: when they play farewell shows, release farewell CDs and let their fans know they're grateful. Distant is Sarge's farewell CD or, as lead vocalist/songwriter Elizabeth Elmore puts it in the liner notes, "sort of our own personal scrapbook." And it works nicely, both as one final shot of their music for fans and as an introduction for listeners who hadn't "discovered" Sarge yet...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
★★★★★
The Glass Intact represents a kind of apotheosis of '90s-era girl-punk -- Sarge brilliantly assimilates the emotional intensity of Sleater-Kinney, the melodic aggression of Team Dresch, and the sheer exuberance of Cub, yet their best trick of all is that they sound like an absolute original...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Great hook-filled indie rock, tight and charming, with female harmonies... If you think indie rock is at a standstill, try this. For fans of Tiger Trap and Team Dresch.
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2008-07-29