Buy Now
| Buy on |
|
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Feb 24, 2015It may not be their best--it’ll be hard to top Ugly--but it’s taking steps in a new direction, and positioning the band for even greater things to come.
-
Mar 2, 2015Rose Mountain could be the album that finally brings these hardworking punkers to a wider audience after nearly a decade of existence, and it would be well deserved.
-
Feb 24, 2015This latest effort shift boils down to two key foci: bolder, less guarded lyrical choices (much of the record deals with Paternoster's ongoing battle with chronic mono) and more strategic space for the frontwoman's legendary guitar solos.
-
Feb 24, 2015Screaming Females have gone out of their way to show they have other tricks at their disposal, and Rose Mountain is one of their most accomplished and satisfying efforts to date.
-
Feb 24, 2015There is a clean, precise vision here resulting in powerful simplicity.
-
Alternative PressFeb 23, 2015The finest moments om the buzzsaw riffage category arrive via the majestic "Triumph," a waking Siamese (Day)Dream, and the skin peeling darkness of "Ripe." [Mar 2015, p.94]
-
Feb 23, 2015The abrasion and urgency of their sound remains, but magnified, as they explore new territory.
-
Mar 12, 2015Rose Mountain is less adventurous than 2012’s sprawling Ugly, but it excels in its compactness.
-
Feb 23, 2015This is the record where the Females escape the punk shadow that’s long threatened to typecast them.
-
Mar 27, 2015Many of these 10 songs are slower or softer than the trio's previous output, and they balance Rose Mountain's overall effect very nicely.
-
Feb 23, 2015Rose Mountain might be Screaming Females' most deliberate music yet, but it lacks much of their former wildness.
-
Mar 2, 2015It's likely that guitar-rock fans who have never heard Screaming Females before will find this a solid introduction to a great band. Here's hoping they are intrigued enough to discover the richer rewards to be found in the trio's back catalog.
-
Feb 25, 2015The band's straightforward punk leanings give way to more angular, spacious, softer songwriting--and some welcome metal nods in the title track--partway through the 10-track album, but Paternoster's vocals never back off. That's where the power, hooks and originality come from, but they're a little relentless.
-
Feb 24, 2015As always, frontwoman Marissa Paternoster's winding guitar solos and dogged vibrato vocals steal the show.