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Q MagazineJun 9, 2015Everything that made their past albums so engaging--the lopsided melodies, frontman Tim Elsenburg's anguished drawl, those lazy Bacharach-style brass fills--is still here, but harnessed to better songs. [Jul 2015, p.114]
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Jun 9, 2015Whenever Carpenter sings, the music seems to adopt different qualities--more reflective and melancholy perhaps – but not in an introverted way. Her tone is also brighter and more outward reaching. It is this further meeting of worlds--unforced and compelling--that makes Motorcade Amnesiacs such a successful work.
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Jun 9, 2015Though the record’s real strength is the deft vocal interplay between Elsenburg and Jana Carpenter, who imbues things with a new sense of depth and, on Chasing Horses and the achingly lovely Tyrekickers, a nuanced sensitivity.
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MojoJun 9, 2015Motorcade Amnesiacs feels stifling, overbearing, all too wrapped up in its own perceived cleverness for the listener to really warm to. [Jun 2015, p.92]