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SUPERGRASS - Road To Rouen
| Guardian |
| Supergrass have gone up, down and sideways during the decade since the speedfreak-pop of I Should Coco; now they have assimilated all their experiences into this massively impressive fifth album. While the music is eclectic and teeming with exotic textures, it always feels coherent and easy to love, and might even earn the band a nomination as Britain's Best Pop Group....full text |
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| Dotmusic |
| While recording their fifth album in a converted barn in Rouen, Normandy, may have given Supergrass an opportunity too good to miss for the title's play on words, there's more to the name than the mere comedy value of a pun. First off, the Oxford four briefly split-up during its making. Secondly, given that they've opted to redefine Supergrass with it, it's a nod to the fact that it could yet be their undoing....full text |
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| Bullz-eye |
| When last we saw Supergrass…well, it was sort of hard to actually see Supergrass, though that haze of chronic that permeated their 2003 album Life on Other Planets. Call it a rare moment of vulnerability; their first two albums (1995’s I Should Coco and 1997’s In It for the Money) were brash, rowdy English pop at its finest, but many were displeased with the more mature sound of 2000’s Supergrass (except this writer, who thinks “Moving” is one of the band’s best songs), and the fans let the band know it....full text |
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