"Tucker Rountree can shred. Though you may not know from watching him lead a Total Slacker show, or even listening to a song, but the lanky Brooklyn golden-hair has the even played with renowned jazz guitarist Eric Johnson. Much like a technically proficient painter chooses to paint with abstraction rather than landscapes, Rountree chooses the jangly, pop-infused chords rather than sweeping hammer-ons and scales for Total Slacker. These ideals intact, the slow-drip Total Slacker creates easy-going pop melodies akin to Bowie/Ronson-produced Transformer, and though the band's roots are in lo-fi, it seems they've gravitated towards glossier production on their upcoming release, THRASHIN. Album-opener "Psychic Mesa" seethes with crunchy guitar and words of an eerie combine of hippies, farmers, and other stranger characters, all living amongst each other and gaining magic powers from living on an alien burial site. There is the abstraction for you" (Vía: Weekly Tape Deck)
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