★★★★★
If The Rolling Stones were starting out now, would they look like The Fratellis? It's a stupid scenario, really - the Stones were only the Stones because of the era in which they were conceived, and The Fratellis wouldn't exist if not for the blazing trails of the Stones and a host of good, bad and forgotten imitators...
- www.beat.com.au
2014-01-07
★★★★★
Who'd want to be a musician these days? Online you'll earn half a shilling for 20 million downloads of your album after having poured your heart and soul into it. The record company, if you're lucky enough to have one, will probably send you out on ridiculously embarrassing promotional jobs and you will begin to question your own credibility. Critics will be harsh and the public will expect you to be on duty 24 hours a day...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-10-24
★★★★★
Tweet Just What the Doctor Ordered Fratellis fans have a reason to rejoice: the Scottish rock band have released their third studio album following Costello Music and Here We Stand, which featured the standout track "Look Out Sunshine." "I've seen a half a dozen ghosts but I don't believe / I'm a cynical cunt and I'm much too lazy to change"- I mean, come on, you can't say that's not an amazing couple of lines right there...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-10-16
★★★★★
It was 2006 when The Fratellis released their first album, Costello Music, and although it was an immediate success, the band's place on the roadmap of mid-2000s indie was the subject of debate. They arrived a few years after guitar music had enjoyed a rejuvenation at the riffing and fretting hands of the likes of Franz Ferdinand and The Libertines, and although the pejorative term 'landfill indie' might not yet have been coined and groups like Scouting For Girls and The Wombats hadn't yet...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-10-07
★★★★★
Cast your mind back, if you will, to 2006. It was then that The Fratellis released their self-titled EP, riding the wave of post-Arctic Monkeys optimism that saw indie-rock/guitar bands/'real music' hitting the charts full-force. For a brief, shining moment, they seemed like a genuinely exciting new band, thanks to the brash, Libertines-esque attitude and breakneck pace of 'Creepin' Up the Backstairs'...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-10-03
★★★★★
Sound: I love a good garage band. Y'know, there's one right by my house, see. They don't play very well, they break out into a 5-second snippet of Crazy Train, forget the riff, break out into Iron Man, forget the words, and then they decide to play an acoustic version of some speed metal song. Oh, and the singer's terrible too; extremely emo girl who couldn't sing a note if her wrists depended on it...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: The Fratellis find themselves in quite a pickle. You can tell by the sound on the new album 'Here We Stand' they want to progress with their music, yet they don't want to betray their fans by eliminating those catchy hooks and pounding choruses that they are loved for. On top of this, they have to steer clear of 'Second Album Syndrome' and of course try to live up to the expectations that Costello Music left behind. For a band in this situation The Fratellis have done pretty damn well...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
If you're in to indie music, are a couple, part of a couple, single, middle aged or under age and were in Camden on Sunday night, then you were probably at the Fratellis concert. The crowd tonight is massively diverse, maybe even the most diverse crowd I have ever seen. And what a great setting, the Roundhouses great scale, escalating the grandness of the evening, which sees the Glasgow boys take the English capital and cement their place as a substantial force in popular music...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Call it pub-rock, lad-rock, garage-rock or whatever your cleverness induces. I'll just call it rock, thank you - raw, infectiously fun, rock. Doubtless, haters will rip Costello's lack of sophistication, but that's exactly what won me over. Songs like Henrietta, Cuntry Boys & City Girls, For the Girl and Ole Black 'n' Blue Eyes are solid and affable, juxtaposing a workingman's dirty, sweaty charm and a young man's bright-eyed, libidinous concerns...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
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