Reviews
MTV News and F5 Debut Release
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1480854/20031201/story.jhtml
--mtv .com
Florida Review (Portuguese)
The Fantastic 5 chega para salvar o universo!
A missão não é impossível, de acordo com Mário, um carioca de Teresópolis, de 33 anos, que há 4 esta aqui nos EUA. Qual é a missão, você pergunta?
(complete review) http://mail.floridareview.com/ed366/musica.htm
--Gene de Souza é radialista
Fantastic Five/Malcontents - split 7 inch
The Malcontents do a nice cover of "The 15th" from the classic Wire "154" LP, and their other song is a decent original guitar rock song filtered through a hazy Replacements mud machine; you can hear a better sounding record looking for a way out of the clouds. The Fantastic 5 songs are faster paced, but have a similar feel; again, the production could use some work, but the song "American Wasteland" shows their potential for both rocking out and coming up with a chorus that will get the kids dancing. Steve Y
@ www.peppydoe.com
@ www.peppydoe.com
--February 2004 Shredding Paper - Steve Y (http://www.shreddingradio.com/singles17.html)
One Angry Swede
...Fantastic 5 - A band that most definitely has got the goods...
--The Angry Swede
The Fantastic 5 / Malcontents 7" vinyl release
"There's some serious moodiness from these students of punk, each of whom contributes two good tracks. THE FANTASTIC 5 take the A-side by storm with the dark and minimal, "Hate To See You Go," and "American Wasteland" is their minor chord anthem. These guys have sophistication! THE MALCONTENTS purvey a slowed-up droney sound (imagine an American pop-punk MY BLOODY VALENTINE) with their think piece, "Street Girl," and then end this perfect 4-tracker with a cover of WIRE'S "The 15th," originally from their rarely explored 154 album!" - available at www.borntolose.com
----November 2003 issue of Maximumrocknoll - Henry Yu