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ENVELOPES - Demon
| Popmatters | | On first listen, I was ready to dismiss Envelopes, to relegate them to the “too smart and self-conscious to be meaningful beyond being hip” category. Name your favorite band and there are elements of said band on Demon. Talking Heads? Yes. Pixies? Definitely. Velvet Underground? Of course. Hazelwood, Stereolab, Magnetic Fields? Yep, yep, and yep. In addition to the artistic reference points, the album sounds like the great indie releases of ‘80s underground (Beat Happening, et al), and has the hipster checkpoints of male/female vocals and a Moog. ...full text |
| | SoundsXP | | The appetite for quirky pop that was whetted by their recent 3 track EP is well and truly sated with the debut long player from Scando five piece, the Envelopes. Now based in Blighty, the completion of any recorded product is a tale of immense commitment bearing in mind that for three years the band’s members were split between Paris, Malmo and Stockholm....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | Sometimes you wonder if they’re not writing this material as they go along. The music from the Envelopes’ first LP, Demon, is so loose and frivolous it feels like the Swedish group wasn’t even aware that the mics were hot. In a way, they weren’t. ...full text |
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