Reviews
"...Irresistible...", Ranked #28 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "With 16 Irresistible Three-Minute Frenzies...", "...Irresitible....It's as if they take Beatlesque hooks and a snotty Stones rock 'tude, mashes them with the eardrum-bursting chugs of Sabbath, and then washes it all in a decidedly millenial indie-rock mood...", Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2001"., "Raw, elemental, and pretty much perfect, CELLS seemed to rise fully formed from a garage in Detroit...", Ranked #3 in Nme's 50 "Albums of the Year 2001"., Included in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums Ever", Ranked #1 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year" - "...A jittery, lovably pretentious garage blues record....Unexpected rock stars who love Howlin' Wolf and peppermint candy in equal amounts...", 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Gothic garage punk strictly by the all the best and baddest rules....fusing inescapable, eerily eternal melodies with dirty-ass, brain-scrambling riffs recalling both the Kinks and the Melvins...", 8 Out of 10-"...Great Songs, a Great Look and Self-Discipline, Too...", Ranked #15 in Mojo's "Best 40 Albums of 2001"., 4 stars out of 5 - "...The most explosively entertaining new band to come out of America in recent memory...", 4 stars out of 5 - "...Their sonic ingenuity...enhances even the most basic garage-rock templates....curiously innocent..."
