With fast songs about faster women and slow death: Glitzkreig is a kamikaze-glitter romp that sounds like it was written and cut in L.A. in 1973 by a band of recovering libertines, then stuffed into a closet full of broken mirror balls and ruined, stacked-heel boots for thirty years. The Spiders, in fact, are modern, heavy-glam lads from Austin, Texas, who rock with the crunchy attention to detail of period scholars. The riffs and wrecking-ball power chords combine the punch and sizzle of early Cheap Trick and Killer-era Alice Cooper, while singer-guitarist Christopher Benedict has a bit of elfin Devo running through his yelp: Mark Mothersbaugh channeling Marc Bolan.
Rolling Stone - Ten CD's From Under The Radar - David Fricke