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Mar 7, 2012It represents the peak of their career to date, excising the self-indulgent tendencies of before and replacing it with raw, spontaneous, and unfettered power and release that simultaneously addresses the visceral and refined.
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Mar 20, 2012The overall sound feels live, where Van's ear-splitting power chords might drop out briefly during a verse, only to return right when it's time to drive things home.
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Mar 7, 2012A well crafted album that takes a fascinating journey through the history of American rock music, geography and pharmaceuticals.
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Under The RadarMar 13, 2012Incandescence, in the age of fluorescence. [#39, p.69]
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Mar 7, 2012With Echo Ono, despite their disposition to meaty and minimalist hard rock, Pontiak have shown that there is music beyond what they know.
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Mar 19, 2012Echo Ono is a good slab of rock and roll that wastes no time doing anything other than being genuine.
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Mar 21, 2012It's a cleanly produced album, sure, but it lacks the attitude of the era from where it came, the 1970s.
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UncutMar 14, 2012It's so generic it could be sold in a supermarket basics range. [Apr 2012, p.83]