Sex Change, like some of the best pieces by the Boredoms or Glenn Branca or Eno, is a startlingly fun album to listen to.  Full text...

Sex Change is a good collection of songs. The album, as a whole, is inconsistent, but simply because each individual song is so drastically different from the others.  Full text...

This is an album of movement, an audio narrative powered along by the borrowed instruments on which it was made. The analogue sound palette alludes to Kraftwerk's synthesizer loops, but also to the warmth and directness of the more proggy end of big-beat – late Chemical Brothers or Death In Vegas, perhaps, or more recently the epic electronic shoegaze of M83.  Full text...

Sex Change won’t change your life. Like Trans Am’s late-90s material, this album is enjoyable without being astonishing.  Full text...

Nothing too brilliant on Sex Change, but maybe that's the point. Just listen to this and have some fun.  Full text...

After Liberation (2004), the band's musical depiction of imperialist paranoia in their hometown of Washington DC, Trans Am in effect split for a couple of years, the three members settling in San Francisco, Auckland and London. When they came together again to record Sex Change, they didn't have any equipment and had to record on borrowed gear, which has given the album a sense of immediacy and dynamism lacking previously.  Full text...

This isn’t a challenging album by any means, but it’s some of the most fun stuff they’ve recorded. When I listen to it, I’m reminded both of Ween’s White Pepper and Mogwai’s Happy Songs For Happy People.   Full text...

An album that more often than not veers into musical ridiculousness, choosing the quick laugh over something more substantial.  Full text...

Washington DC electro veterans return  Full text...