Three decades and running, the Clean drafted the blueprint for what we now call indie rock. While there may not be another "Tally Ho" here, the NZ trio continue to make music that hits the perfect balance of familiar and new, and if that doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement, then you're reading it wrong. On the whole Mister Pop drifts by in a wonderful psychedelic haze and the more you listen the better it gets.

The Clean are now into their third decade as a band and while there has been a lot of downtime in that span, they still managed to draft the blueprint for the sound that came be known as indie rock, and what I would consider some of the best music ever made, ever. The on-again, off-again status that the Kilgour brothers and Robert Scott have maintained over the last two decades seems to suit them very well. These days it appears that their strength is in their lack of ambition beyond self-satisfaction. They don't expect to unveil another "Tally Ho" and you shouldn't either, but they do make music that hits the perfect balance of familiar and new, and if that doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement then you are reading it wrong. On the whole Mister Pop drifts by in a wonderful psychedelic haze but the more you listen the better it gets.

-Dave Martin(September 10, 2009)