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B-52's, The - Funplex
| Ew | | It's been 16 years since these new-wave Georgia peaches released their last studio album, and thankfully the B-52s haven't grown up one bit for Funplex. Though the guitars are a little beefier and the electronics a little sleeker — check out the ace Rapture impersonation in ''Eyes Wide Open'' — the B-52s are still gloriously single-minded party animals more interested in giddily rocking love shacks than stoking intellects....full text |
| | Avclub | | It's hard to imagine today's dance-rock landscape without The B-52s, and it's equally hard to imagine Funplex, the band's ninth album in a nearly 30-year career, without today's dance-rock landscape. Or without yesterday's: The album's assured highlight, "Eyes Wide Open," opens like the DFA remix of Gorillaz's "Dare," but by the time it's over, it feels as much like a New Order song....full text |
| | Amazon | | Like a time capsule, the B-52s' first album in 16 years reanimates that familiar fusion of danceable post-punk and bizarrely conceived songs of the oldest new wave. After sitting out 1992’s Good Stuff, Cindy Wilson returns to the love shack, joining fellow bee-hiver Kate Pierson on mouth-watering vocals and harmonies circa Wild Planet....full text |
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