★★★★★
Since revealing themselves as Randy, Chuck and Bob (another level of subterfuge) in 2010, The Residents have stripped their inventive stage shows down to the core instrumentation of computer, guitar and voice, and continue (at intervals) to tour. The Shadowland shebang was unveiled in Europe last year on a short tour, and most recently performed at SXSW in Austin, Texas, to support the upcoming documentary on the band, The Theory Of Obscurity.
- recordcollectormag.com
2015-06-18
★★★★★
For a band that has released well over fifty albums since the '70s, The Residents have remained one of the most mysterious musical forces in existence, and stubbornly so. Even if you were lucky enough to catch them in concert, their identities would be concealed by either giant eyeball masks and top hats (their trademark look) or some other kind of camouflage...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-08-03
★★★★★
A band as wilfully obscure and yet as artfully self-mythologizing as The Residents have, over their career, generated plenty of weird and wonderful stories. The Residents are ideologues suspicious of the art of personality and yet have bundles of the stuff. Rumour has it, most likely one spread from their own office of misinformation in San Mateo via Shrieveport, Louisiana, that in 1971 the band sent a bunch of home recorded tapes to Hal Haverstadt of Warner Brother Records...
- thequietus.com
2014-04-03
★★★★★
Privately released for sale on The Residents' current Talking Light tour, this is basically a recording of the January 2010 rehearsals the band undertook before hitting the road...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-02-28
★★★★★
There are several reasons why it is really hard to review a record by the Residents. One reason is that there is virtually no frame of reference other than, well, other Residents' records. Another is that the Residents still value the sense of mystery with which the band is associated. Even a review copy of the latest release, Beautiful Eyes, is available by download only, it arrives by email and it contains absolutely no press release...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-08-28
★★★★★
Thirty-two years and 32 albums into their existence, The Residents' gradual move away from frenzied experimentalism has taken them into a parallel universe of avant garde muzak and theatrical lyrics. As with Bruce Springsteen's The Rising, there are no explicit references to the World Trade Center attack itself, but this is an album full of despair, isolation, loss, pain and—hopefully—redemption...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
The name of the crew may not be familiar, but the artists who reside in it should be. Muneshine received an 8 out of 10 from RapReviews for his beats on "A Walk in the Park" in 2007, and Saint got an equivalent dose of dap on "About Time" in 2008 for his rhymes. That's all lovely, but like so many great underground artists, it left them critically acclaimed and commercially frustrated. Friendship and mutual respect between the two led to one of those "Shit, why not...
- rapreviews.com
2010-03-05
★★★★★
Sound: Eskimo is usually referred to as The Resident's masterpiece. And it is not an exaggeration! It is their most unique, artistic, and actually less sinister and fun album. Eskimo is based off about 80% sound effects from homemade instruments and synthesizer effects. These sounds vary from wind makers always at the beginning and end of songs, nasally vocals with grunts and chants, and a variety of whistling instruments...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-02-13
★★★★★
Sound: For those who have been trying to decide their 1st album to enter the obscure music world of The Residents, this is a great warm-up album. That doesn't change the fact that it's a hodge-podge of weird, unexpected, eerie music. I suggest before purchasing the album, be aware of other avant-garde artists. Get use to the experimental edge that some add in music. 01.Constantinople: the verses are nothing but a powerful trill. The chorus is very synthesized and robotic...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
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