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Jan 30, 2013Short-sighted as the party-hearty concept may be, the unbridled enthusiasm makes the album a helluva lot of fun even for those who have trouble relating to wasted youth.
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Jan 25, 2013They've operated as FIDLAR since 2009, and released a couple of EPs prior to this collection. That time was spent honing a brand of hopped up, surfy garage punk that comes with more variety than you might expect.
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Feb 7, 2013Carper’s lyrics work best when they apply a Duhnam-like sense of self.
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Q MagazineFeb 8, 2013The spirit of drunk adolescence, cramped kitchens and broken valuable endures on their frightfully fun debut. [Mar 2013, p.101]
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Feb 6, 2013Without [Kate Nash collaboration Awkward], Fidlar is still an electrifying, intensely fun album. But with it, it would have been perfect.
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Jan 29, 2013Its debut bursts with hot sludge and lazy slop-rock jags.
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Feb 4, 2013While Fidlar’s debut does have a tendency to wonder towards the mindless end of the spectrum, their eponymous album, for the most part, is actually quite accomplished.
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Jan 22, 2013FIDLAR is a punk-spirited rock & roll record whose original source material is alive and a millimeter below its vinyl surface.
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Jan 22, 2013Fidlar is easily one of the most energetic and fun-filled records in a while.
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Jan 24, 2013All told, it's an endearing bag of tricks.
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Jan 22, 2013The album is filled with two-minute romps that systematically tout both their influences and their contemporaries.
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Jan 23, 2013Songs teeming with juvenile energy, songs fueled by raunchy hedonism, songs so depraved that Chuck Bukowski would shake his head in disgust. These characteristics are why FIDLAR's self-titled debut is one of the sleaziest (and catchiest) punk rock records in recent memory.
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Feb 4, 2013With its Ramones-via-The Golden State garage punk, it's brilliantly noisy in all the best places ('White On White', 'Wait For The Man') and yet not afraid to tone down on occasion ('Gimme Something').
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Feb 7, 2013There are moments when the ambivalence toward everything sounds like it might, just might, be giving way to genuine concern.
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Mar 13, 2013The quartet's self-titled debut offers one cheap thrill after another – short, crude, and entirely self-explanatory.
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Jan 22, 2013From the adrenal rock-and-roll guitars on "Cheap Beer" to the guttural shrills on "Cocaine," every song here champions that adult adolescence and "f*** it" ideology that has always made the genre so damn appealing.
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Feb 7, 2013FIDLAR are still young, and they sing about what they know; never on the album do you feel like they’re presenting themselves as anything other than what they are, and this is why the album is enjoyable despite its repetition and simplicity.
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Feb 11, 2013FIDLAR will make you want to pound a case of the cheapest beer you can find with these guys, it’ll make you want to crank it up as loud as it will go in whichever of your friends’ cars.
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Feb 19, 2013The worst songs make you wish they had more to say. Their best ones make you glad that they don't.
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Feb 15, 2013Oozing more nihilistic youthful abandonment than anyone since Black Lips, their manifesto sounds pretty appealing from here.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 26
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Mixed: 0 out of 26
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Negative: 1 out of 26
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Sep 14, 2013