MIND BOMB

"An album of furious energy and frustrated urgency. Consider a revision of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland set in Margaret Thatcher's Britain to a pulsating back beat. "
- TIME MAGAZINE

"The songs on Mind Bomb have a do-or-die urgency. Matt Johnson is a committed writer with something to say."
- THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Beyond Love" is Johnson's most beautiful song ever.”
- ROLLING STONE ****

"TheThe stretch their sound past the edge of madness it already inhabits.”
- NME

“’Mind Bomb’ could easily be The The's ‘Astral Weeks.’ A magnificent album, full of vital energy.”
- MELODY MAKER

"Uniquely optimistic yet tortured and anguished, Mind Bomb is TheThe’s most impressive work to date. A meld of bitter images and desperate hopes focusing on the individual conflicts and politics of a troubled world.”
- THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

"A distinctly personal mix of rock and roll, political persuasion, and psychic examination.
- THE GUARDIAN

“An enthralling album. The most complete The The record to date.”
- SOUNDS

“His most accomplished songwriting to date. Some of the most invigorating music to emerge in the late '80s.
- VOLUME

"Through four albums and most of the 1980’s Matt Johnson and his band have chronicled the ecstasies of agony with unflinching detail. This is a fierce work.”
- BOSTON PHOENIX

"The album is an absolute stunner and confirms Matt Johnson’s position as one of the best songwriters in the country.”
- TOP

“Matt Johnson is back. May all his Gods go with you.”
- BLITZ

"Lush, groovy, provocative and disturbing."
- THE WASHINGTON TIMES

"Blending dense, tightly-wound music with anguished song writing, Mind Bomb is an eloquent statement of rage. Play it very loud, very late and very alone.”
- BOSTON GLOBE

"An explosive record that will make you think.”
- CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT

"This is very potent stuff.”
- THE GAVIN REPORT

"This group backs lyrics about political and religious persecution with great heavy pop. I’d call them fierce.”
- SEVENTEEN

"Johnson is still thinking, trying to get things done, contributing his fraction to make the world a saner place.”
- LA WEEKLY

"Johnson’s scathing social commentaries chronicle a planet with many problems and few solutions. A solid release by a gifted songwriter.”
- THE BOSTON HERALD

"Welcome to a brain threatening LP that is sure to upset, and sure to offend. Mind Bomb defies the charts and hearts of rock circa ‘89. It is an explosive record and a welcome change of intellectual pace. Rock records just don’t come any better. ”
- ATLANTIC CITY DAILY

"TheThe make powerful brooding music that grapples with the big questions. Mind Bomb is an eloquent rant against organised religion.”
- THE VANCOUVER SUN

"Johnson’s music and words are not for the faint-hearted or feeble-minded. Mind Bomb is an unflinching look at the collective soul with all the lushness and intensity of Infected, but simpler, less dense and more spiritual.”
- CASHBOX

"While many of Johnson’s contemporaries are likely to fade away with the latest synthesizer, Johnson will surely continue to drop mind bombs of musical insanity long into the next century.”
- NIGHTLIFE

"Mind Bomb explodes. Spitting disgust at the world, its politics, its religion and it’s relationships
- BEAT

"Each song is a spiritual quest. His music is cathartic, instinctive, perhaps occasionally prophetic.
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