• Record Label: Sub Pop
  • Release Date: Mar 25, 2022
Metascore
73

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. The Wire
    Apr 1, 2022
    80
    Guerilla Toss’s music is now disarming in its earnest post-digital exuberance and cutesy directness, while a fragile thematic framework holds it all together. In the process of getting here, they traded their convulsive rock progressions for slowly decaying walls of texture and Kassie Carlson’s Auto-Tuned vocals. The effervescent bangers “Live Exponential” and “Mermaid Airplane” are especially awesome. [Apr 2022, p.56]
  2. Apr 1, 2022
    80
    Even after years of anchoring their sound around the warped dance sensibility fans have come to expect, Famously Alive captures a band that can only do so much to compromise their magnificent strangeness.
  3. Apr 1, 2022
    75
    Famously Alive is a beautiful mess of squelchy psych-pop—emphasis on pop—that feels in conversation with the band’s abrasive, dissonant past: As Guerilla Toss turn a new page musically, Carlson turns one of her own.
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  1. Apr 9, 2022
    3
    Switching gears from berserk electronic post-punk to tepid, vaguely psychedelic pop was not expected or welcome. It's too loose and devoid ofSwitching gears from berserk electronic post-punk to tepid, vaguely psychedelic pop was not expected or welcome. It's too loose and devoid of hooks to genuinely qualify as a pop guilty pleasure, and it damned sure doesn't rock hard enough or present us with enough interesting concepts to find success as an art rock or indie album. Sadly, I can't reccommend this record to anyone. It really feels like a swing for the mainstream fences, but falls far short. Full Review »