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Super Taranta! is the culmination of superb musicianship, endless energy, and an inborn sense of fun and a dedication to progression and innovation, and if that's not something to celebrate and dance to, it's hard to know what is.
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On this album, GB make the Dead Kennedys seem subtle. And it would be nice if there were more variety to their sound.
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Gogol suffers beneath ST!'s length and schizophrenia.
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If there is such a thing as music with a hairy chest, this is it.
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Imagine the B-52's playing a wedding in Siberia and you'll have a loose idea of what's in store on these 14 tracks.
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BlenderThe best song on Super Taranta! is all about one bad party: the disappointed, outright funny 'American Wedding. [Aug 2007, p.111]
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Super Taranta! is an album of such sweaty vigour, spittle-flecked passion, wide-eyed curiosity and a keen sense of the ridiculous it deserves a big fat plug on primetime telly.
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Beyond Hütz’s maniacal wail lies a bed of musicianship so textured, so emotionally captivating, it entraps you with the alluring gaze of an Eastern-block temptress under a blanket of silky unrestrained rhythm.
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Super Taranta! cements further the untouchable status of Gogol Bordello.
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Ultimately, Gogol are all about a collective euphoria that's right in the here and now.
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A singularly rousing gem.
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Music this theatrical demands a stage. On disc it plays a bit like a conversation-starting party favor: colorful and bright, but no substitute for actually being there.
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Yes, it's the relentless energy, humour and versatility which makes this record stand out and apparently their albums are merely incidental compared to their stunning live shows.
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Super Taranta! is, at heart, a riotous, utterly bonkers, brilliant party album from one of the world’s greatest dance bands.
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Super Taranta! soars for three songs before settling in to a depth-charged, raucously quotable musical and philosophical groove.
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SpinSimply enjoy the band's increasingly deep groove, its rich crosscutting of violin and accordion melodies and its mastery of both Gypsycore trash and lilting Euro-reggae. [Aug 2007, p.106]
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Super Taranta! is easily the group’s most accomplished effort to date, and an exciting prospect of things to come.
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This is more like their "Give ‘em Enough Rope," a perfectly fine extension of that first energy burst, one that deserved to be milked a bit.
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On Super Taranta!, the NYC-based gypsy-punk crew is as energized as ever.
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Although it doesn’t attain the career-defining cumulative power of 2005's "Gypsy Punks," it's a broader, more intricate disc.
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There's plenty of fun to be had, though the relentlessness of fiddle, accordion and Hutz's roaring vocals is exhausting.
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Under The RadarMuch of the album begs to be vamped a few extra bars, to accompany a visual spectacle. [Summer 2007, p.80]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 23
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Mixed: 0 out of 23
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Negative: 3 out of 23
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May 23, 2017
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PaulC.Sep 26, 2007
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[Anonymous]Aug 18, 2007