art-rockers [in] a knotty experiment that freely slams together the sounds of contemporary classical music and free jazz (Pitchfork, USA) On Ex-Futur Album: A floating pop dream (The Quietus, UK) An electropop miracle... Too avant-garde at the time, perfect for today (les Inrockuptibles, FR) Adorably unfinished and delightfully imperfect (Vogue, DE) So ahead of the curve it sounds like it was recorded yesterday (The Crack, UK). On Figures: The long-running Belgian avant-garde band explore complicated gender dynamics on their ambitious new double album (Pitchfork, US). Brings their stylized shapeshifting to the 21st century... uniting a fascinating beam of novel sounds in thought-provoking ways (Pop Matters, US) Inventive arrangements and programming… so exhilarating and durable… mischievous and purposefully eclectic… wide-ranging appeal… (The Wire, UK) 75 minutes of scampering, genre-agnostic fun… Aksak’s questing spirit is very much intact… (Uncut, UK) Totally pop, yet psychedelic… the pop and avant elements perfectly complement one another... You can also dance to it (The Quietus, UK) A masterful lesson in contemporary pop. Jumps from the craziest experimentations to irresistible pop songs, with joyful ease (Les Inrockuptibles, FR) The rebirth of a band which escapes all categories… a unique weaving of pop and mischievous, poetic songs (Le Monde, FR) Inspiring and exhaling more music and more poetic figures in 22 tracks than most people do in 22 albums - if not 22 lives (Libération, FR) The focus is on playfulness and the joy of experimenting. And these delights are contagious (ByteFM, DE) On recent live shows: A miracle: the resurrected Aksak Maboul unfolds a brand of synthetic, fleshy pop, with fat, enchanting grooves, sparkling melodies and lyrics. Between echoes of Brigitte Fontaine circa 'Comme à la radio' and strains of Tom Tom Club. (Télérama, FR) The pop immediacy of the songs gets enriched by experimental tangents, between electronic music, krautrock and jazz, which raise the bar to unexpected heights (Le Soir, BE) See also Romantic Warriors II: A Progressive Music Saga About Rock in Opposition Footnotes References External links . Aksak Maboul pages on the Crammed Discs website. . Aksak Maboul on Myspace. Aqsak Maboul / Marc Hollander Chris Cutler homepage. Musical groups established in 1977 Rock in Opposition Experimental musical groups Belgian rock music groups Belgian experimental rock groups