The Big Takeover Reviews Welcome to the Plunderdome
Brooklyn based music magazine The Big Takeover had this to say about Welcome to the Plunderdome, even comparing the Lowest of the Low to Brooklyn luminary Joe Pernice Brothers!
This Toronto quintet's hot-selling 1991 debut Shakespeare My Butt…
Welcome to the Plunderdome is “Superfantastical”
https://lusolife.ca/lowest-of-the-low-plunderdome/
David Ganhão at Luso Life says:
That’s it… that’s the review… one [made up] word “superfantastical.” Sure I can say it rocks… it swings [thanks in part to horns provided by…
Spill Magazine: 4/5 for Welcome to the Plunderdome
https://spillmagazine.com/spill-album-review-lowest-of-the-low-welcome-to-the-plunderdome/#:~:text=Welcome%20To%20The%20Plunderdome%20is,and%20lead%20singer%20Ron%20Hawkins.
a very fine, quality addition to the catalogue of this legendary Canadian…
Welcome to the Plunderdome gets 4/5 from The Winnipeg Free Press
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/2023/10/13/album-reviews-8
Record Rewind – Shakespeare My Butt… at 30
David McPherson at Amplify looks back on the 30 year history of The Lowest of the Low's Shakespeare My Butt...
https://amplify.nmc.ca/record-rewind-lowest-of-the-lows-shakespeare-my-butt-at-30/
Spill Magazine Gives AgitPop 4/5
The energy is contagious, making this brilliant album a striking, singable, and most of all optimistic offering about affecting change for the better.
Previously, the band had been skeptical of collaborating with large record companies, such as Warner Music Canada. However, it’s demonstrated in Agitpop to have been a very successful move for Lowest Of The Low. Agitpop ranks right up there with Shakespeare My Butt… which says much of the effort and passion put into this album by all involved. Hawkins spoke to that in our recent interview.
Agit Pop Release Party Review
The new material is wholly their sound, still full of activism, boldness and the gritty love of those in need that their band name speaks to, with a well done accompanying video display that weaves historic civil rights march footage with the contemporary and the local, as seen as a backdrop on “The Barricade”.