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Feb 24, 2015The band may castigate the apathy endemic to the masses, but it doesn’t wallow. It instead throbs, bristles, and ultimately galvanizes, vividly documenting what’s been lost in our comfortably numb political complacency while brazenly providing a template for what can be done to re-gain it.
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Mar 6, 2015Citizen Zombie is more disciplined and linear than its epochal predecessors, yet it also reveals that its creators remain a force to be reckoned with.
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The WireMar 4, 2015Citizen Zombie is not a refusal. Rather, it's a fully plugged in reckoning with the eternal power of now. [Feb 2015, p.49]
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Feb 27, 2015Citizen Zombie resurrects a band that’s still evolving, rather than a nostalgia act, and is all the better for it.
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Classic Rock MagazineFeb 26, 2015Marred only slightly by a couple of scrappy tunes, the album feels like a life-affirming reminder of anarchist Emma Goldman's celebrated maxim that the only worthwhile revolution is one you can dance to. [Apr 2015, p.96]
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Q MagazineFeb 25, 2015The 11 tracks on Citizen Zombie find these progenitors of the "Bristol sound" in satisfying rude health. [Apr 2015, p.108]
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Feb 23, 2015Citizen Zombie sidesteps the pitfalls of having to live up to former glories by disregarding them altogether and reaching instead for new, weird heights.
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Feb 23, 2015At this temporal distance from the shock of their new, the post-millennial Pop Group are engaging, galvanizing, and far from unlistenable in its ongoing fusions of Afrobeat, funk and dub.
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Feb 20, 2015The Pop Group’s signature mode of deviant funk, with dub effects and tangled guitar distortion wielded with razoring disregard for polite taste, is still disconcerting and the focus of their anger is still sharp, albeit refracted through allegory and apocalyptism.
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Feb 19, 2015They have always effortlessly switched registers, blurred genre boundaries and smattered their lyrics with eclectic cultural references. Citizen Zombie does all of these things, without loosing its political edge.
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Mar 18, 2015A most welcome comeback.
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Feb 26, 2015The Pop Group’s sound on Citizen Zombie is considerably bigger, but not necessarily tighter.
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UncutFeb 19, 2015The most striking thing about Citizen Zombie is how young and naive and happy it all sounds. [Mar 2015, p.74]
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Feb 19, 2015Citizen Zombie is a lot of fun, which is both a blessing and a curse.
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Feb 23, 2015It would be difficult for any band to return with new music after 35 years of absence but with Citizen Zombie the always challenging Pop Group have succeeded in returning with something vibrant, urgent and necessary.
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Feb 23, 2015The music gets better and better, with the out-and-out xx-y Age of Miracles breaking sonically satisfying new ground.
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Feb 19, 2015With producer Paul (Adele) Epworth at the helm, there is a new gentility here.
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Feb 26, 2015The result of so much suspicion is an album that’s somehow both loud and timid--all clamor and no soul.