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Kula Shaker - Strange Folk
| Slantmagazine | | Making their full-length return after reforming in early 2006 and releasing an iTunes-only EP, Kula Shaker sounds, on Strange Folk, nearly the same as they did when they called it quits back in 1999. Considerably more successful overseas than in the U.S., where they're remembered (if at all) for "Tattva," a Top 10 modern rock hit with a hook written in Sanskrit, and for an enthusiastic cover of "Hush" for the I Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack, Kula Shaker distinguished themselves from their contemporaries on the Britpop scene by playing a dedicated brand of psychedelic-era classic rock infused with Eastern mysticism....full text |
| | Uncut | | The astral-travelling gatecrashers of Britpop, Kula Shaker found themselves cast into near-oblivion after ill-advised flirtations with right-wing imagery. Hit singles in Sanskrit also, bafflingly, fell out of vogue. Crispian Mills reconvened the band last year and, thrilled by the "energy", they return with what is, surprisingly, only their third album. They haven't downsized: the rock is (well played) bog-standard retro, but themes cover Guantanamo and the afterlife. Amid the Dylan raps and Yardbirds licks (and if The Charlatans made this, they'd be garlanded) there's a welcome sense that they're smartly chuckling at themselves....full text |
| | Nme | | It’s possible that no album has arrived at NME Towers on more of a hiding to nothing than ‘Strangefolk’. For younger readers, Kula Shaker were eminently punchable mid-’90s toffs with an irritating line in Indian spirituality-obsessed psychedelia, and, in Crispian Mills, the most instantly hateworthy frontman who ever lived. Depressingly, the vaguely impressive Verve-isms of opening track ‘Out On The Highway’ suggest we may be forced into the most unlikely critical coddling in music journalism history, but as soon as Mills indulges his inner hippy on ‘Second Sight’, the die is cast....full text |
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