"John Vanderslice is one of the most imaginative, prolific, and consistently rewarding artists making music today."  (NPR)

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"(5 out of 5 stars) Meticulous in its craftsmanship and literary in its scope, Pixel Revolt, the fifth solo album from San Francisco-based John Vanderslice, is all the more miraculous an album because it lacks the suffocating pretense of so many deliberately meticulous, would-be literary indie-rock records. It fully merits high praise as both the best work of Vanderslice's career and easily one of the best albums of what has been a refreshingly strong year for music... The end result is an album that explores yet another critical interplay, the one between "pop" and "art," as Pixel Revolt embodies the best that modern efforts at each has to offer."  (Slant Magazine)

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"The amount of care and consideration John Vanderslice puts into the minutia of his records is beyond impressive. Over the course of three solo albums since the dissolution of his band MK Ultra, Vanderslice has proven himself to be not only a skilled songwriter, but one of the most unique, talented and thoughtful producers working in indie rock today. Vanderslice's "sloppy hi-fi" approach marries the grandiosity of Dave Fridmann's fuzzed-out, super-compressed sonic palate with the subtle charm and inventiveness of lo-fi techniques, and has resulted in some of the best-produced indie rock to see release in the last several years."  (Pitchforkmedia.com)

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"Allowing a multi-instrumentalist to sit in his own recording studio for 300 hours to make a concept album sounds like a recipe for disaster, but in the case of former MK Ultra frontman John Vanderslice, the result--last year's Time Travel Is Lonely-- is actually a pleasantly off-kilter recording. The New Life and Death of an American Fourtracker (both records on Barsuk) is even better. Helped by members of Beulah, Spoon, and Death Cab For Cutie, Vanderslice never trips on his own ambition: Unlike the countless other fourtrackers he evokes, he writes songs of scope and unwavering poetry."  (Time Out New York)

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"With the release of Time Travel is Lonely, his second full-length since breaking from pop outfit MK Ultra, Vanderslice has proven that hard work really does pay off. Time Travel Is Lonely does what great pop records should, reeling in ears with outlandish production and what Vanderslice calls "everything-but-the-kitchen-sink overdubs," in much the same way as recent masterpieces by Grandaddy, Flaming Lips and Neutral Milk Hotel. Vanderslice's quirky songcraft has never sounded better than on Time Travel Is Lonely, a delight of bouncy horn-ingested pop laced with distorted drums, beats and Moog-y gurgles that would make even Keith Emerson sit up and take notice. A refreshing Pacific breeze in what has been a relatively slow year in pop."  (Exclaim)

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"Vanderslice is not only developing into a brilliant pop-song craftsman, but he's an adept storyteller as well, blurring the boundaries between truth and fiction so thoroughly that, in the end, the difference doesn't even matter. After all, a good song is still a good song, whether or not it actually tells a true story. And with this album being the first Vanderslice-penned record to receive decent national distribution and promotion, he could be well on his way to becoming the Next Big Indie Thing."  (Pitchforkmedia.com)

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