Entertainment Weekly (10/25/96, p.116) - "...Kula Shaker don't merely take you back 20 years on this confident debut, they rejuvenate that period by mixing sitar and Sanskrit chants with wa-wa guitar Hammond organ. The blissed-out effect is somewhere between post-India George Harrison and early Stone Roses." - Rating: B+Q (10/96, p.165) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...they can go from delicacy to harder bluesy riffs and mix harmonies with funky rhythmic undertows to produce a gloriously full sound. They have discipline, a surefooted sense of pop melody, and they do it all with a sense of positivity..."Alternative Press (1/97, p.73) - 5 (out of 5) - "...Tight song structures embrace Kula Shaker's freakform excursions, and though they're into jam, they use butter, as well, which means that self-indulgence is kept to a minimum..."NME (Magazine) (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #14 in NME's 1996 critic's poll.NME (Magazine) (9/14/96, p.50) - 9 (out of 10) - "...K is enormous; generating mighty, vertical grooves of pan-dimensional power pop which will surely have The Stone Roses gnawing at their innards....it's The Verve gone ethno-berserk, as huge as the horizon itself....astonishingly confident, musicianly gifted, gloriously hedonistic..."46.08482
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Rolling Stone (11/25/99, p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...takes Karie's musical tourism to a new level of snapped sophistication....Few singers show such restraint while reaching round the globe."Spin (1/00, pp.122-3) - 7 out of 10 - "...baby-doll-voiced cultural crossfade of Tokyo cool and sexy Eiffel Tower....the proverbial Big-In-Japan....[a] curiously shimmering star-lite in pop's milky way."Alternative Press (3/00, p.83) - 4 out of 5 - "...she breathes life into songs written and produced by artists like Momus, Stereo Total and French singer/songwriter Katerine. [Her] talent lies in adopting her collaborators' material into a style all her own....enchanting..."Magnet (1-2/00, p.70) - "...another episode of Jobim/bossa nova moments, swinging shag-pop and 'faux'-Gainsbourg percussive....The biggest change...is that Karie has discovered trash drumming, rim-swallowing garbage-slamming that colors the funny pop...like John Bonham on a bender..."CMJ (11/1/99, p.21) - "...Karie's charm imbues the entire record and compels the likes of Buffalo Daughter and Add N to X to get in on this saccharine pop fling."41.1189
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Rolling Stone (11/25/99, p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...takes Karie's musical tourism to a new level of snapped sophistication....Few singers show such restraint while reaching round the globe."Spin (1/00, pp.122-3) - 7 out of 10 - "...baby-doll-voiced cultural crossfade of Tokyo cool and sexy Eiffel Tower....the proverbial Big-In-Japan....[a] curiously shimmering star-lite in pop's milky way."Alternative Press (3/00, p.83) - 4 out of 5 - "...she breathes life into songs written and produced by artists like Momus, Stereo Total and French singer/songwriter Katerine. [Her] talent lies in adopting her collaborators' material into a style all her own....enchanting..."Magnet (1-2/00, p.70) - "...another episode of Jobim/bossa nova moments, swinging shag-pop and 'faux'-Gainsbourg percussive....The biggest change...is that Karie has discovered trash drumming, rim-swallowing garbage-slamming that colors the funny pop...like John Bonham on a bender..."CMJ (11/1/99, p.21) - "...Karie's charm imbues the entire record and compels the likes of Buffalo Daughter and Add N to X to get in on this saccharine pop fling."41.1189
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Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.63) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."Rolling Stone (12/26/96, p.186) - "...bright, wired bounce and the shell-game shuffle of funk beats, snappy Jamaican rhythms and mosh-pit, shout-it-out choruses in Nowell's writing--that's the stuff of a band with great promise and the confidence to make good on it..."Spin (9/99, p.144) - Ranked #48 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."Spin (1/97, p.58) - Ranked #8 on Spin's list of the "20 Best Albums of '96."Spin (12/96, p.147) - "...the consistency of SUBLIME...and the home demo `Robbin' The Hood'--is a singer/songwriter's triumph. Yet what makes Sublime such a gift to bland ol' modern rock is Nowell's irreducible personality, lunging after excesses he could see through but never resist..."Entertainment Weekly (8/16/96, p.62) - "The recent overdose death of...Brad Nowell makes this both the first and last major-label release from SoCal fusion punks Sublime. It's a respectable testament--an unusual blend of ska rhythms, dub, and hardcore guitar rock, tinged with the occasional eerie hip-hop sample..." - Rating: BVillage Voice (2/25/97) - Ranked #34 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.RIP (10/96, p.70) - 3 (out of 5) - "...A trippy, funky, fun mix of punk, ska, rap, reggae and any number of other influences....SUBLIME is a mainly lackadaisical, relaxed, summertime-feel kind of disc..."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.68) - "Slick and assured....All popular punk should be this original and intelligent."24.78995
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