★★★★★
British duo Jack Hues and Nick Feldman had their biggest success at home when the 1984 single Dance Hall Days fell just short of the Top 20, but they found greater favour in the US. Out of half-a-dozen lofty Billboard chart placings, the anthemic Everybody Have Fun Tonight made it all the way to No 2. Recently they've been sighted on the 80s revival circuit, and Tazer Up! is their first album in almost 24 years, but makes pointed references to the group's past...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-06-20
★★★★★
Sound: It was 1989, when the last full length Wang Chung album was released. Twenty one years later and two compilation albums on the rack, Wang Chung has successfully made the transfer back to the new world by having the album released online, but they kept their old style and brought that back to the new world. Wang Chung started in the 80's as a British new wave band. Although never attaining mega fame, their songs were featured as dance songs in the late 80's...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
If there must be a WangChung revival, it may as well be a version of their best hit. Byunderscoring Jack Hues' sped-up vocals with a high-energyelectro groove, the Rapino Bros. serve up an unwieldy remix of "Dance Hall Days" thatmakes the original sound as current as the Chemical Brothers.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
I may have been a mere babe in the woods at the time, but when I first heard "Everybody Have Fun Tonight", the first single from the album Mosaic, I knew that something was fishy in Wang Chung Land. Until then, the group had mastered a balancing act that kept it poised nicely between the worlds of mainstream pop success and arty new wave respectability. This balance was best exemplified by the single "Dance Hall Days", taken from the band's 1984 major-label debut, Points on a Curve...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
★★★★★
If Japan's Tin Drum album of 1981 sought to redefine the similarities between Oriental melodic structure and Occidental music, then Wang Chung's Points on the Curve pushed the boundaries further toward the mainstream ("Even If You Dream," "Don't Be My Enemy"). It is baffling, then, that such an album should prove a more substantial hit in the States, where "True Love" was memorably adapted as a score to an incestuous rape scene on Miami Vice...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
This nine-track score for William Friedken's violent flick To Live and Die in LA will appeal to those who enjoy the more dramatic spheres of Wang Chung's music. While the single and title track are pleasant enough, things get gritty with "Every Big City" and the moody atmosphere of "City of the Angels." "Wake up Stop Dreaming" could easily have been a second single and "Lullaby" is also a catchy filmic ditty which seems at odds with the rest of the album, but engages nonetheless...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
I may have been a mere babe in the woods at the time, but when I first heard "Everybody Have Fun Tonight", the first single from the album Mosaic, I knew that something was fishy in Wang Chung Land. Until then, the group had mastered a balancing act that kept it poised nicely between the worlds of mainstream pop success and arty new wave respectability. This balance was best exemplified by the single "Dance Hall Days", taken from the band's 1984 major-label debut, Points on a Curve...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-08-03
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