★★★★★
Release Date: July 16th 2013 In every band's career, there are a couple of records that aren't as well-received as others. It's usually just one or two, but these records aren't as popular as the rest of their discography, for reasons that are quite understandable. Either the music itself just wasn't good as their older or newer material, there was a member change that ended up being quite significant, or the band did something different on the record that they've never done before...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-08-26
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare Doesn't Quite Connect In Australia, the '90s arrived late. Its grunge scene burnt briefly and brightly with Silverchair in 1995, after Kurt Cobain had already passed on. But that didn't stop countrymates Sick Puppies from riding their slick, frayed coattails. In 1997, "All the Same" grazed the charts, but those who remember the song do not do so fondly. Sick Puppies was forgettable and forgotten, but that never stopped this trio from making music...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-07-21
★★★★★
Release Date: July 14 2009 I've mentioned in previous reviews that there are genres and bands I'm not too familiar with. Hard rock and alternative metal are definitely a couple of those genres, but over the last five months, I've gotten a bit more acquainted with them, thanks to a friend of mine who's really into that kind of music...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-07-08
★★★★★
Sound: There's been a lot of buzz about the Sick Puppies, thanks primarily to the claims that the Australian band has the #10 most-viewed video of all time on YouTube. That video for "All The Same" features a man holding a billboard giving out "Free Hugs," and it ended up attracting enough attention to be mentioned on Oprah, Jay Leno, and an assortment of other big-name shows...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Tri-polar is the first UK release from Sick Puppies, the grungy Australian trio who provided the music to THAT Free Hugs video. Having won plaudits Down Under since the turn of the Millennium, they've since relocated to Los Angeles and are definitely moving up in the world. Whether they can stay up is another question entirely. The main difficulty they'll face is that, in a saturated market, there's not much about their music which sticks out as theirs...
- www.musicomh.com
2011-05-11
★★★★★
Sound: Sick Puppies always amazes me. When I heard "new Sick Puppies CD", I was stoked. However, when I looked into it, it was only an acoustic EP of the "hits" off "Tri-Polar" and their breakthrough single, "All the Same." They have hired string players to help with the EP. However, don't expect much percussion. When it comes to the actual songs though, they will blow you away...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2011-03-15
★★★★★
Take a look at the artists who've spent time in the studiowith Antonina Armato and Tim James and among the likes of Miley Cyrus, VanessaHudgens and Aly & AJ and you'll find this L.A.-based hard-rock trio, best knownfor providing the soundtrack to the hit YouTube video Free Hugs Campaign, whichhas racked up more than 46 million views...
- latimesblogs.latimes.com
2010-04-02
★★★★★
Sound: Australia's Sick Puppies have been rapidly gaining buzz over the past decade, with their popularity getting bumped up a notch when they won the YouTube Video of the Year award back in 2006 ("All The Same," otherwise known as the "Free Hugs" video). With their third studio album Tri-Polar, the band seems to be following in the footsteps of radio-friendly bands like Nickelback - and that's not always such a good thing...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
It had to happen sooner or later: a band that actually cites Silverchair as a major musical influence. Heaven help us. The American-sounding Australian trio certainly has cornered the whole post-grunge shtick, from the turgid, downtuned guitar riffs, to the mind-numbing, lethargic tempos, to the early-90s angst that still seems to sell well, but underneath all the drudgery lies some potential that could be realized, that is, if the band actually decides to stop aping Godsmack and Nickelback...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
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