By condensing a palate of swirling and innovative guitar voyages and a sweat-soaked baroque punk ethos that loses itself in carpet-crawling majesty, Gringo Star has emerged as Atlanta’s favorite rock and roll sons. Brothers Nick and Pete Furgiuele, along with Pete DeLorenzo and Matt McCalvin have continually built momentum, crisscrossing the country and honing their chops on rock and roll’s frontline. Crafting an art-damaged and intense presence, the group’s sound falls somewhere between The Animals, Motown and The Kinks. In person, the group’s soft-spoken demeanor instills a sense of alluring mystery, but on stage, Gringo Star explode. Never ones to hang on to the same instruments for too long, each member of the group sprints and hurdles from station to station, swapping out guitar for bass for drums for voice, keyboard for accordion, kazoo for tambourine. As a result, the band’s multifaceted musicianship culminates in dense and cerebral rock mantras that are hard-wired to the head and heart.
With their excellent debut album, All Y'all, this Atlanta garage-rock band validate the CMJ buzz. -Spin.com
This Atlanta, Georgia foursome add layers of rural lilt to their Brit-ish pop, garagey grit to others, while sneaking out slight-psych guitar blasts and gang yalps when least expected. If not the wheel rebooted, their self-titled full-length on My Anxious Mouth is stunningly seasoned for a debut.
-CMJ.com
All Y'all" is an exuberant rush of early Kinks guitars, tambourines, handclaps, multi-part harmonies, and bits of tinkly piano, all catchy. –Pitchfork
A little scuzzy, a little jangly and a lot awesome. -Blender
A tapestry of jangly guitar and multi-part vocal harmonies, and ranges from psychedelia to garage rock to surf pop. A bit off-kilter and more than a little charming, it's Atlanta pop at its best and communicates as well as any recording could what it's like to see the band live. No song better represents the band than the title track (and first single), 'All Y'all': It's anthemic, hook-filled and catchy as hell. - Paste
An outstanding new album -This Week In New York
From the layered vocal harmonies and jangly distorted guitars to the surf-rock beats and lo-fi production, All Y'All sounds as if it's the lost recording of some obscure – but great – 1960s garage band, not a group of young upstarts from the same city that gave us Ludacris, T.I. and Lil Jon.
-The Hype! Today
By condensing a palette of swirling and innovative guitar voyages and a sweat-sokaed and broque punk ethos that loses itself in carpet-crawling majesty, Gringo Star has emerged as Atlanta's favorite rock and roll son. Brothers Nick and Peter Furgiule, along with Pete Delorenzo and Matt McCalvin have continually built steam by crisscrossing the country and noning their chops on rock and roll's frontline. Crafting and art-damaged and intense presence, the group's sound falls somewhere between the Animals, motown, and The Kinks: sexy, humble, and unmovable. In person the group's humble and soft-spoken demeanor instills a sense of alluring mystery. But on-stage Gringo Star explodes. Never ones to hang on to the same instruments for too long, on-stage each member of the group sprints and hurdles from station to station, swapping out guitar for bass for drums for voice. As a result the group's mulitfaceted musicianship culminates in dense and cerebral rock mantras that are hard-wired to both the head and heart. -JAMBASE
Transmission is an irresistible atmospheric minor-key guitar jangle, with faint R.E.M. echoes, from a neatly named Atlanta band. -USA TODAY
