Don't say that

"Superfood have been tagged as '90s-obsessive Britpop revivalists. While this record smacks of a youth spent listening to Blur, Oasis and their baggier forbears The Charlatans and The Stone Roses, its pool of influence is bigger. 'Lily For Your Pad To Rest On' conjures Beck's inventiveness circa 'E-Pro', and the end of 'Mood Bomb' has a Jagwar Ma haze. The title-track meanwhile, is sparse and slinky, nodding to hip-hop in a similar way that Arctic Monkeys did on `AM'. It's also a rare point where positivity wavers ... It suggests that there are undiscovered layers to Superfood too, but they're to come".

"Superfood wear their 90s alt-rock influences on their sleeves and thus run the risk of being shunted aside as yet another nostalgia-rock band. Luckily, they do justify themselves thanks to the winning combination of singer Dom Ganderton's Supergrass-esque falsetto and guitarist Ryan Malcolm's vigourous, playful riffs. It's not all Britpop-inspired either: there are notes of early Vines, Howling Bells and Radiohead, too. At its weaker moments the album feels frustratingly backward-facing, but is played with enough skill to compensate for its lack of ingenuity".

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"Den nye britiske kvartet Superfood kører (...) stilsikkert rundt i 1990'erne. Her er det (...) britpoppen, der får en tur. Fra Stone Roses-guitar og Supergrass-falset på "Right On Satellite" over Blur anno 1994 på "You Can Believe" til Blur anno 1999 på "TV" og Arctic Monkeys-bas på "Don't Say That" ... Gruppen fra Birmingham prøver bestemt ikke at maskere inspirationskilderne. Hvilket i øvrigt er fint i tråd med den originale britpop, der heller ikke forsøgte at skjule kærligheden til 1960'ernes pop. Derudover er kvartetten skarp til at klippe-klistre på instrumenterne, og tilsat tekster med sort engelsk humor resulterer det i en vældig lytbar debutplade".

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