- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Nov 6, 2012This album sounds every bit as absurd, chaotic, and exhilarating as it did 14 years ago.
-
UncutJan 3, 2013The production is beautifully OTT, with everything stretched and digital, zeroes and ones working binary overtime to warp some of Herrema and Hagerty's greatest anthems into robotic rock mantras. [Feb 2013, p.94]
-
MojoNov 21, 2012It was uniquely visionary--primordially rockin', yet titled defiantly at the stars. [Dec 2012, p.101]
-
Q MagazineNov 21, 2012A deranged and thrilling experience, there's been nothing from them to touch it since. [Dec 2012, p.122]
-
Nov 30, 2012Accelerator's savage vitality hasn't diminished one iota in the intervening decade-and-a-half: quite what point it's ultimately trying to make remains typically elusive, but you get the sense that it's somehow been proved right in the long-run.
-
MagnetNov 27, 2012Accelerator is the most focused album Royal Trux ever made. [No.92, p.57]
-
Nov 21, 2012Fourteen years later, this reissue reveals a record so unique and ahead-of-its-time that nothing else has sounded like it since.
-
Nov 6, 2012The fact this lost treasure is once again widely available in any capacity is reason to celebrate.