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LADYBUG TRANSISTOR - Can't Wait Another Day
| DustedMagazine | | The Ladybug Transistor has been through some changes since the release of their self-titled 2003 album, although you’d probably never know without consulting the liner notes of Can’t Wait Another Day. Essex Green keyboardist/vocalist Sasha Bell has left the group (alas) and been replaced by Kyle Forester of Great Lakes. Bell’s EG bandmate Jeff Baron, meanwhile, is a minimal presence on the new album, with Ben Crum (also of Great Lakes) standing in. While Bell’s contributions will be missed, and Crum’s are most welcome, the line-up substitutions have a minimal effect on the group’s sound: frontman Gary Olson is the chief creative force behind the group, and despite the fact that he shares songwriting credits with the other members, Can’t Wait Another Day is clearly his show....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | The slippery slope of fabricating artist descriptions (bands making babies with bands, giving drugs to bands, doing perverse things to bands) sometimes seems like a necessary evil that—when plied sparingly—can make for cheap, effective descriptors. It gets a bit closer than nearly useless genre catchalls like “post-rock” or “experimental” or “alternative,” but also stinks of avoidance and encyclopedic assholism. Ladybug Transistor, a sprawling collective of onetime Elephant Sixers fronted by Greg Olson, get bombarded with them more often than most....full text |
| | PitchFork | | Can't Wait Another Day would be easier to love if it didn't keep accidentally signposting a shortage of fresh songwriting ideas. It can't help but feel symbolic when the Ladybug Transistor covers Trader Horne's "Here Comes the Rain", if only because the chorus is awfully similar to Jan & Dean's "Like a Summer Rain"-- a song this band covered a few albums back....full text |
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