- Record Label: Stones Throw
- Release Date: Feb 28, 2012
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Jul 5, 2012Like it or not, the synths are here to stay, and The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume Two adds several more fascinating pieces to the puzzle.
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Jul 5, 2012Enthusiasts will salivate over another uncovering of tainted treasure.
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Jun 13, 2012The tracks are truly hidden gems, kept from mass appraisal via DIY distribution methods in the '80s, home-recorded cassettes and vinyl. Vasicka and Peanut Butter Wolf's efforts here revive and catalog some truly infectious would-be synth classics.
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Jun 13, 2012As far as historic compilations go, this is an undeniable belter, successfully capturing music with a very particular energy worth celebrating.
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Jul 5, 2012A wonky, Teutonic thing full of outré drama and should-be pop classics.
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Jun 13, 2012It offers no new narrative or stated focus and thus represents nothing more than the second gleaning of tracks from the cloistered minimal wave universe. Still, there's something undeniable here.
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Jun 13, 2012The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume 2 loses a bit of the first volume's vitality. Furthermore, by suggesting that this music can be replicated in any era, the collection betrays its former thesis that there was something particularly special about the historical circumstances that lead to all this music coming into being.
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The WireJul 24, 2012The second set might not be as powerful as its predecessor, but the milieu it conjures is still engrossingly evocative. [May 2012, p.61]