Did you know that Robert Christgau, the "Dean of American Rock Critics," is a fan of the Royal Crescent Mob? It's true, and
he wrote up reviews of all the 1980s albums. Here's what he had to say about their 1985 debut Land of Sugar:
White funk that by some alchemy generates not only a groove, which is rare enough, but also the irrepressible fun every garage band pretends to think it's having. Two of the originals are up to the two covers, Slick James's wasn't-that-by-Kiss? "Love Gun" and the Ohio Players' long-time no-hear "Love Rollercoaster." Couldn't have hurt their karma that lead singer David Ellison cut an Ohio Player's lawn when he was a kid, and somehow seems fitting that first pressing they got mixed up at the plant with a Christian heavy metal record. A-
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