tuesdays robot

Tom Hallet of Round the Dial/Pulse Magazine wrote of Tuesdays Robot’s first album: ”What matters here is that this music is REAL, universal, honest, frank, forthright, fun, challenging, and leaves the listener with not only a sense of contentment and well-being, but also leaves a goodly portion of its lyrical wealth ensconced in his or her noggin, to be used at a later date."

On their second record “Peace Sing-Along”, they cut a more positive set of tunes by getting all their friends to sing along to music later described as “social commentary on love, peace and the justice system.” –Perfect Porridge

With the completion of “Peace Sing-Along”, Tuesdays Robot had a very pressing question to answer: “How can we make music any more peace-and-love positive than that?” An answer germinated when they heard Amy Daml of 770 Radio K say this about the album: "Very Bruce Springsteen rockesque, it’s like a happy, sunshine filled party."

They thought “Hey dudes, that’s totally the name of our next album—Happy Sunshine Filled Party.” And what started as just a laugh became a fully fledged 15 tracks devoted to spreading the sunshine, good vibes, and love—continuing Tuesdays Robot’s simple goal of making music that "sounds like a bunch of people having a really great time and you wanna be a part of it." -Tony Thomas, MinneapolisCast

The sunshine is spreading—Rob van Alstyne of Metromix recently wrote “While a concept album featuring ‘only songs about sunshine’ is admittedly too cute by half, TR main-man Rick Widen makes his premise work by running with it wholeheartedly, writing tunes whose melodies are as cheery—and well, sunny—as his lyrical subject matter. Widen's crafted a bouncy and breezy collection of indie-pop indebted to the smooth sounds of '70s soft-rock icons like Bread—with loose slide guitar and jaunty piano fills subbing for their forebears syrupy strings. I would prescribe non-stop listening to "Sunshine Melodies" for anyone battling seasonal affective disorder next winter without hesitation; it's sure to brighten your day.”