★★★★★
Tweet Lurking in the shadowy hallway at KROQ studios, The Neighbourhood stopped by the radio station's Red Bull Sound Space to share some news with fans and provide a live performance of a new song. A sea of colored locked fans, some even young enough to have their parents in tow, waited patiently for the monochrome Los Angeles based band. KROQ radio personality Nicole Alvarez grabbed the mic and welcomed the crowd to "LA's best kept secret," where small intimate shows happen for the fans...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-04-28
★★★★★
Release Date: April 23 2013 Oh, how I've missed you, indie-rock. It's been awhile since I've listened to an indie-rock/pop record. It's fortunate, because I've really wanted to listen to CA indie-pop band The Neighbourhood's debut record I Love You. I've seen the record on sale at a few places, so it's been on my radar. As of recently, though, I haven't been into a lot of indie-rock...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-09-30
★★★★★
Los Angeles outfit the Neighbourhood seek crossover success with their 2013 Columbia debut, I Love You.. Over the course of 11 tracks and 46 minutes of music, the Neighbourhood fail to lock into one definitive style, straddling elements of indie-rock, pop, hip-hop, and R&B. The ends of the quintet's "eclectic" means is mixed as opposed to being triumphant...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-06-26
★★★★★
The first three times I listened to this album I was confused as hell. Is this the Sneaker Pimps twiddling the bean of Sevonica and plastic UK hip hop from 2004? The synths and open air drums are in a slightly Portisheady mood, but The Neighbourhood is upstairs wearing a house coat with a bubble pipe vs. the Beth Gibbons' cellar of purple and smokey haze, draped in velvet and heroin...
- www.syffal.com
2013-06-05
★★★★★
Breakthrough US quintet The Neighbourhood released their much acclaimed debut album, I Love You, late in April and have scored some pretty sweet gigs off the back of it. While there are serious highlights on this record, there are also moments of - for lack of a better word - immaturity. Although the album is entitled I Love You, the subject matter seems to contradict this. Much of the album is quite negative and not necessarily what you would expect upon first glance...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-05-18
★★★★★
In a memo sent to journalists covering this month's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the Neighbourhood asked that its early-afternoon set be photographed only in black and white. A silly request? For sure. But it's one entirely in keeping with the devotion to style that runs through "Sweater Weather," this young L.A...
- www.latimes.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Los Angeles can at times seem to be a hotbed of bands who are defiantly pop acts dressed up in indie/alternative rock clothes. And if you've heard one, you've heard them all. But are the hotly-tipped quintet The Neighbourhood different? The way they have chosen to present themselves, compared by many to Lana Del Rey in terms of style, is cause for intrigue. Following on from last year's I'm Sorry EP, now comes the quartet's debut full-length release, I Love You...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-04-24
★★★★★
Historically, the combination of rap and guitars has had a low success rate. For every Beastie Boys, there are many, many more Limp Bizkits and Linkin Parks. Latest in the long line of those forging indie-hop are The Neighbourhood, though despite their lofty visions and unorthodox genre-merging, they're really more of a pop band than anything else...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-04-20
★★★★★
Although the words to the song Afraid - "You tell me I don't like you/ Fuck you anyway, you make me wanna scream at the top of my lungs" - might suggest the Neighbourhood's singer and main lyricist, Jesse Rutherford, can't be older than 14, this LA outfit are actually in their 20s. And there's more in the same pubescent vein as their debut album progresses, right up to the penultimate A Little Death, in which he implores, "Touch me, yeah, I want you to touch me there"...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-04-20
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