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Classic Rock MagazineMay 6, 2022Twee and tuneful, self-consciously oddball and so indefatigably alt. [Jun 2022, p.83]
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May 6, 2022Several moments on Peacock Pools rank among the most emotionally resonant in McBean's monumental catalogue.
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UncutMay 6, 2022This is their best set of songs since the band’s sex-crazed 2004 debut, continuing some of the debt-to-the-’80s feel of 2014’s Get Back on homage-paying tracks like “Nikki Go Sudden” and “Swollen Maps”. [Jun 2022, p.31]
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MojoJun 22, 2022Occasionally, the joke is pushed too far (the feigned English accents and campy synth-pop of Muscles). Mostly, however, McBean's native gift for riff and songcraft transcend any conceptual archness. [Aug 2022, p.92]
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May 6, 2022The collective boasts no shortage of remarkable musical talent and vision, and one longs to love the album based on this alone, but Peacock Pools is simply too middling to merit such passion.