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Jun 12, 2012Traps, gets plenty of mileage from those elements [sun, hot dogs, and babes by the pool], but it shoots them through with just enough worry and weary resignation to land them a notch above the typical empty-calorie summer jams.
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MagnetJun 13, 2012Most of Traps keeps the toes a-tapping with happily-sung, sad-bastard references to bygone lovers, running out of weed and coming of quarter-age. [No.88 p.57]
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Jun 12, 2012Traps shakes with stoned-in-a-basement riffs and sarcasm.
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Jun 21, 2012This two-faced record can be jarring, but the melodies stick, as does the venom in many of the lyrics.
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Jun 12, 2012With softer edges, a fuller sound, and some clever detours that don't take them too far away from the Jaill sound, it's a good showing that proves they are too consistent to fall into a sophomore slump.
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Jun 12, 2012The result is idiosyncratic pop-rock appealing to geeky outsiders and scene lifers that's perennially in short supply, largely by design.
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Aug 6, 2012With the recent break up of Girls, there is certainly an opportunity for Jaill to take the mantle of derivative, vintage pop rock, but they are not quite there yet.
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Jun 28, 2012Definitely a turn-it-up album to add to your summertime playlist.
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Jun 13, 2012On the whole, Traps is definitely worth a listen, but it's clear that the band can do much better.
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Alternative PressJun 12, 2012Jaill's pacing and musical phrasing feels noticeably lethargic. [Jul 2012, p.94]
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Jun 12, 2012More often than not it just comes off as either needlessly melodramatic or watered down to a state of vanilla
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Jul 16, 2012While pleasant enough on a superficial level, the band's third full-length, Traps, falls short of the kind of coherent, compelling vision that would lift them up from intermittently-engaging mediocrity.
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Jun 18, 2012This album is so soaked in self-pity that a track called "Madness" seems like a given. "Stone Froze Mascot" is a bad metaphor in and of itself - more self-pity, more of the same. Sound-wise, the album could use work, too.