The Only Two Magazines That Matter Review the Latest Early Stages 7″
Byron Coley, writing for The Wire . . .
“On their second single, this Austin, Texas, quartet gets a bit more defined than they were on their very cool debut. It’s still a little hard to figure out what period of rock they are trying to reinvent, but they conjure up a wild assortment of blats (I swear there are moments that remind me Keith Reif-era Renaissance) while channeling a basic extension of art punk (as defined by Wire). This single brings the band’s punky attributes more to the fore, but never in a doctrinaire way. Excellent.”
… hard to beat, but here’s a review that is super positive about one side of the single from Maximum RockNRoll …
“On first listen, this didn’t quite grab me as much as their excellent first EP. The title track meanders loosely around an admittedly catchy melodic figure, but doesn’t really go anywhere. Luckily, the flip returns to previous form: “1992” is a bright, shambolic pop song worthy of anything the CLEAN put out, while “The New Sunrise” illuminates with licks reminiscent of TELEVISION and conversational vocals that remind me of post-YUMMY FUR act 1990s, I’m hoping the A-side will grow on me but this is worth it for the B-side alone (which I’ve listened two several times in a row now.”