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Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "The guitars spark, snarl and tangle, while the girl-group la-la-la's cushion tougher sentiments."
"Brownstein offers a wonderful ech of of Patti Smith....Timony sings with shades of Chrissie Hynde's elegant restraint..."
Ranked #9 in Spin's 'The Top 40 Albums Of 2011' -- "[T]he resulting ten songs -- especially centerpiece freak-out 'Racehorse' -- are so giddy and breathless that easy nostalgia is their least intriguing quality."
4 stars out of 5 -- "[F]ull of bluesy, distorted guitars. The sprawling 'Glass Tambourine' matches ghostly multi-part harmonies with steamrolling classic-rock riffs and Weiss' colossal rhythms..."
"Key to their sound is how seamlessly they mesh no-nonsense pop punch and no-net wizardry....WilD Flag sounds like liberation."
Ranked #3 in Magnet's '20 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "Wild Flag's got everything under control, so let its sonic rollercoaster pull you up and hurl you around the track until you can't stand up straight."
4 stars out of 5 -- "Carrie Brownstein's vocal is positively lascivious on 'Boom'....The skull-cracking drums of erstwhile Sleater-Kinney bandmate Janet Weiss lend a gutsy, urgent grunt to 'Romance'..."