Brian Egan
While they take a somewhat smaller creative step between these two albums than between Bonsai Superstar and Smack Bunny Baby, Hissing Prigs in Static Couture nonetheless offers up a fascinating dose of space-age sound bites, falsetto vocals and chant-along choruses.
13y
Taylor's haunting melody hovers just above a swirl of static, bleeps, distortion and a computerized speaker. The effect is chilling and signals additional exciting work to come.
1y
Bonsai Superstar captures a band that was ahead of their time and still moving forward.
13y
This first full-length album shows that if the sparkling consistency of Pollard's mid-'90s masterpieces was not yet present, the madcap songwriting sensibility and pop instinct of those albums certainly was. Pollard's melodies shine here, even in the band's embryonic stages.
12y
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