“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 ****
“Uniquely optimistic yet tortured and anguished, Mind Bomb is THE THE’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
“Mind Bomb could easily be THE THE’s Astral Weeks. A magnificent album, full of vital energy.”
– MELODY MAKER
“He set out, explicitly, to blow the listener’s mind. Perhaps what he effected was more of a scorched earth campaign. When it’s over and you find yourself staring at the smoking rubble, your principal emotions are liable to be shock and awe.”
-THE QUIETUS
“THE THE stretch their sound past the edge of madness it already inhabits.”
– NME
“An enthralling album. The most complete THE THE record to date.”
– SOUNDS
“Matt Johnson is back. May all his Gods go with you.”
– BLITZ
“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
“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
“Lush, groovy, provocative and disturbing.”
– THE WASHINGTON TIMES
“Johnson is still thinking, trying to get things done, contributing his fraction to make the world a saner place.”
– LA WEEKLY
“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
“THE THE 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
