El Rey - The Wedding Present  Generally favorable reviews -
based on 15 Critics  Critic score distribution:   1. Positive: 8
out of 15   2. Negative: 0 out of 15   1. Gedge and Albini is a
match made in heaven, and El Rey is an excellent follow-up to
one of their finest works together.   2. No matter how fraught
or heartbroken these stories get, each is gifted with an
indelible chorus, and even the few tracks of sort-of filler like
'Soup' are performed with enough verve and energy that El Rey
zips by.   3. El Rey has its share of surprises, mostly in the
vein of its particular subject, which is the cruelty older men
visit on younger women, and vice versa. But mostly it's merely
another Wedding Present record: witty, randy, guitar-heavy, and
not quite satisfied.   4. The expert recordings and mixes on El
Rey provide a marquee for these intimate investigations of the
complex social and emotional landscape of Los Angeles to glow
long into the night. [Summer 2008]   5. If you've been sticking
by the group for lon