NAOMI PUNK - Television Man

While this second effort doesn't stray much from their already-impressive 2012 debut The Feeling, we're not complaining at all, happy to be bludgeoned again by another batch of slightly lopsided, aggressively indifferent Washington State sludge-pop.

"Television Man, the Pacific Northwest act’s follow-up to 2012's The Feeling, is musically disjointed, skittish and askew. The effect isn’t to dazzle with technicality or to confound with deliberate idiosyncrasies, but to take listeners on a circuitous ride to the song’s exalted musical peaks. It’s a ceaselessly forceful record, full of low-end blows that are felt more intensely due to the fact that the arrival schedule is so fickle. It’s also occasionally beautiful, namely when sustained vocal lines cascade across the syncopated bludgeoning of every crescendo." - Wondering Sound

"Most of Television's songs—and most of the songs on 2012's The Feeling, for that matter—are slow and grunge-like, anchored by vaguely radioactive-sounding guitars and vocals mumbled to the point of unintelligibility. They are heavy and romantic but sour end-to-end, the ballads of a teenage swamp thing preening in the dark. They're also unexpectedly pretty, filled with twists of melody and structure far more sophisticated than they need to be to fly in the realms of punk and underground rock." - Pitchfork