- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
UncutTheir scratchily rhythmic guitar music with dour, sardonic vocals has proved immensely influential. [Dec 2006, p.114]
-
Rarely has a band created a world-space so monolithic yet provided a listener with so many easy routes to the interior.
-
Entertainment WeeklyNeither of the albums they recorded before disbanding made it to the U.S.; thankfully, this long-overdue retrospective includes the choicest cuts from both. [22 Dec 2006, p.83]
-
If you have the 2002 LTM reissues, there's no need to obtain the disc; it would be completely redundant. If you don't have them, you'll be getting the vivid gist of a sharp and short-lived band -- one that delivered brief, spastic shards of over-caffeinated post-punk with skittish vocals on the verge of spinning out of control.
-
Over twenty years later their music continues to connect.
-
Make up for lost time and embrace these wonderful smartypants-es today.
-
MojoIt was a scratchy and sassy sound, funky and fun.
-
The whole of Entomology should open new ears and eyes to Josef K's thrilling, scraping, clattering greatness.
-
New Musical Express (NME)Josef K's candy-striped take on post-punk isolationism sounds both ancient and modern. [18 Nov 2006, p.31]
-
However arcane they may once have seemed, the truth is that Entomology's highlights were too good to stay obscure forever.
-
UrbAn overdue look into one of Scotland's most underrated bands. [Dec 2006, p.116]
-
Disbanded in their prime before they grew stale or flat, they still feel pregnant with promise, tantalizingly unfinished; like an actor cut down in youth, they've remained an irresistible lure to the imagination of pop romantics ever since.
-
Paste MagazineFor enthusiasts of the genre it's an indispensable staple and a welcome rediscovery. [Dec 2006, p.102]
-
Q Magazine[Curator Paul] Morley's selection is generally spot on, but those who already own 1998's more concise retrospective Endless Love won't need this. [Dec 2006, p.150]
-
Spin[Franz Ferdinand's] Alex Kapranos... owes JK crooner Paul Haig a pint. [Dec 2006, p.103]
-
Pretty much a repeat of an earlier 1990 compilation.
-
Entomology is full of music you desperately want to love, as it’s so clearly superior to the music that has subsequently genuflected in its direction. Thing is, I’d much rather hear a couple of minutes of Paul Haig’s droll yet strangely alluring post-Josef K solo records than the entirety of the host outfit’s material.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 1 out of 1
-
Mixed: 0 out of 1
-
Negative: 0 out of 1
-
JonSDec 31, 2006