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8.5
57637
8.5 |
Prefix
Altogether, Pond releases a fun album. Fun, you know, meaning boisterous, expressive, entertaining, overwhelming, and (most certainly) enjoyable
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8.0
57640
8.0 |
Time Out
Dizzying and thoroughly exciting stuff, even at its silliest
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8.0
57263
8.0 |
NME
Bristles with unrestrained creativity and sonic exploration
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8.0
57274
8.0 |
Uncut
They are still capable of making a wonderfully infernal din, but there's conspicuously less errant cacophony here
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8.0
57292
8.0 |
FasterLouder
This isn’t the inverse of Tame Impala: it’s a kindred spirit of the closest sort
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8.0
57315
8.0 |
DIY
It rushes along with the pace of a live show, but it has the finesse and the sheer sound quality of a carefully assembled album
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8.0
57348
8.0 |
The Independent
If mutant garage-psychedelia is your thing, then Aussie quintet Pond's Hobo Rocket should have your head spinning
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8.0
57602
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
Pond rock, and don’t particularly care what you, Tame Impala, or their mother think about it
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7.8
57605
7.8 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
A psychedelic freak-fest
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7.0
57390
7.0 |
All Music
There's a lot of depth to explore in the 30 minutes of Hobo Rocket, from bombastic glam, to chugging stoner rock, to colorful psychedelia - all of it odd as usual
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7.0
57319
7.0 |
musicOMH
When Pond hit the right notes they soar, and being comparatively young there is clearly more to come from a seemingly bottomless well of delights
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7.0
57291
7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It demonstrates that rather than being just a side-project to a more commercially and critically successful cousin, Pond are an entirely different beast in their own right
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7.0
57260
7.0 |
Loud And Quiet
A record that could easily have been buried in a time capsule by a wide-eyed trio of David Bowie, Mark Bolan and Ozzy Osbourne in 1974, then dug up last week
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7.0
57261
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
When Hobo Rocket shines, it’s blinding
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6.5
57262
6.5 |
The 405
There's often a lot going on at once, too much to focus on, and if there ever is respite, it's quickly whipped away from you in lieu of some other cacophonic wall of noise
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6.0
57323
6.0 |
The Guardian
Hobo Rocket rampages through psychedelia, funk, 70s soft rock, grunge and even a shuffle rhythm in sprawling opener Whatever Happened to the Million Head Collide
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6.0
57405
6.0 |
PopMatters
You don’t know what will follow in the next minute of any of their songs. That’s a recommendation
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6.0
57528
6.0 |
Under The Radar
Parts of the album feel too sloppy, too wayward, and too unfocused to really encourage repeated listens
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6.0
57536
6.0 |
The Irish Times
As freewheeling, cocky grooves aimed at the stars go, you could do a lot worse than jumping on Pond’s rocket
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6.0
58169
6.0 |
Q
Wild psych from Antipodean five. Print edition only
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5.9
57461
5.9 |
Pitchfork
Hobo Rocket draws out the indulgence, more than happy to engage in dumb fun without bringing much to the party
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4.0
57404
4.0 |
No Ripcord
In their trying to toughen up their candy-colored psychedelia that Pond loses their field of vision, embodying a parodial manifestation of machismo that comes off sounding confused and empty of content
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