Famously Alive
by Guerilla Toss
  • Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Mar 25, 2022
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  1. Novelweapons
    Apr 9, 2022
    3
    Switching gears from berserk electronic post-punk to tepid, vaguely psychedelic pop was not expected or welcome. It's too loose and devoid of hooks to genuinely qualify as a pop guilty pleasure, and it damned sure doesn't rock hard enough or present us with enough interesting concepts to find success as an art rock or indie album. Sadly, I can't reccommend this record to anyone. It reallySwitching gears from berserk electronic post-punk to tepid, vaguely psychedelic pop was not expected or welcome. It's too loose and devoid of hooks to genuinely qualify as a pop guilty pleasure, and it damned sure doesn't rock hard enough or present us with enough interesting concepts to find success as an art rock or indie album. Sadly, I can't reccommend this record to anyone. It really feels like a swing for the mainstream fences, but falls far short.… Expand

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73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. The Wire
    Apr 1, 2022
    80
    Guerilla Toss’s music is now disarming in its earnest post-digital exuberance and cutesy directness, while a fragile thematic framework holds it all together. In the process of getting here, they traded their convulsive rock progressions for slowly decaying walls of texture and Kassie Carlson’s Auto-Tuned vocals. The effervescent bangers “Live Exponential” and “Mermaid Airplane” are especially awesome. [Apr 2022, p.56]
  2. Mojo
    Apr 1, 2022
    60
    Camp art-pop songs matching Kassie Carlson's surreal lyrics with burbling synths and booming basses, it might snag GT the audience they crave. [May 2022, p.96]
  3. AllMusic
    Apr 1, 2022
    60
    The energy and inspiration are there, but as the band attempt to write more accessible material, some of the uniqueness of their past work is compromised. Still, you can't say that the album is predictable, and even if not every song hits, the band's exuberance is undeniable.
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